Thursday 28 August 2014

Move to Step 3 for Assesment of Proposed Reactor

Office for Nuclear Development update – Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of Hitachi-GE’s UK ABWR
 For information, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and the Environment Agency (EA) working with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have completed an initial high level assessment of Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy’s UK-Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR) design and have moved to Step 3 of the assessment process.

Full details on the GDA of new reactors is available on the joint regulators website.
 You can also make a comment about the UK ABWR design via Hitachi-GE’s website. Hitachi-GE will respond to the comments and issues raised.