Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report 2019/20

AWE welcomes the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report 2019/20 published today (11 November) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).

We have continued to make safety improvements in many areas over the past year by delivering a more ‘holistic approach’ to safety management and welcome the news that with sustained improvement, our sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield may be positioned to move into routine regulatory attention during 2021/22.

We recognise however, that there’s more work to be done to achieve these projections. For example, long-term sustainable compliance with Periodic Review performance and the timely closure of associated shortfalls. This will be supported through the implementation of our Nuclear Risk Management Project which will enable the company to maintain ‘live’ facility and site safety cases.

Paul Rees, AWE’s Director of Environment, Safety and Health, said: “The progress we have made to date demonstrates our strong commitment to improving safety performance across our sites. We will continue to work closely with all our regulators to achieve this.”