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Regulatory Inspection and
Enforcement
Colin Patchett, United Kingdom
Contents
• Site inspection and enforcement
• Personal Experience 1987 to 1999
• Personal Experience 2000 to 2009
• Personal experience 2010 to 2013/4
Site Inspection and Enforcement
• Site Inspection
- Compliance with limits and conditions
- Safe working
- Interaction with Inspectors for, non nuclear safety, the Environment,
Transport, Security and Safeguards
• Team Inspections
• Joint Inspection
• Emergency exercises
Enforcement
• Site Inspector advice
• Regulatory decision
• Prosecution
Sizewell B
• What are the key safety systems, components and structures to inspect?
• Inspection planning
• Inspection by assessment inspector
• Is the design replicated on site
• Are the material specifications met
• What are the NDT results, concrete tests
Sizewell B
• Are the detection systems installed
• What are the results of the QA inspections
• Components and material control on site
• Containment, leak rate test, overpressure test
• External hazards
Hinkley Point A
Personal Experience 1987 to 1999
Site Inspector Hinkley Point
• Interaction with licensee
• Structure of planned inspections
• Development of the Basic Inspection Plan
• Reactive Inspections
• Emergency Exercises
Planned inspections
Site Inspector Hinkley Point A
• Cover all 35 licence condition arrangements
• Inspection of key safety systems for shutdown and hold-down
• Frequency of inspection
• Assessment Inspector support
Personal Experience 1987 to 1999
Site Inspector experience
• Team Inspections
• Joint Inspections
• Environment Agency Prosecution
• Licensee site management
Personal Experience 1987 to 2009
Site Inspector experience
• Emergent Safety Issues 1994/5
• Plant shutdown
• Events
• Where to look
• Legacy waste issues
Personal Experience 1987 to 1999
Site Inspector experience
• Team Inspections, more detailed and targeted
• Report produced with recommendations
• Joint Inspections with other Regulators, Environment, Transport, Asbestos,
Security
• Opportunity to work together, remove barriers
Personal Experience 1987 to 1999
Site Inspector experience
• Emergency Arrangements
• Test all aspects over an agreed timescale
• Severe accident conditions
• Out of hours
• During a Statutory Outage
Hinkley Point A and B
British Energy Share Sale
Site Inspection approach
• Site split for Magnox/AGR site
• Common management
• Training
• Shared facilities, radwaste
• Emergency response
Personal Experience 2000 to 2009
Managing Regulatory Issues
• Development of Site safety performance metrics
• Joint safety/security exercises
• Team Inspections
• Generic safety Issues
• Strategic Investment and planning
Performance Metrics
• What is your impact?
• Is safety Improving
• Licence condition compliance
• Emergency Arrangements
• Periodic Safety Review
Safety and Security
• Safety/Security event?
• Challenges
• Joint exercises
• Site response
• Training
Safety Issues
• Hartlepool/Heysham 2004/5
• Hinkley B/Hunterston B 2006/7
• Heysham 1/Hartlepool 2007/8 £1.6 billion cost
Personal Experience 2010 to 2013/4
Leadership in the Regulator
• Licensee interaction
• New Build Licensing
• Lifetime management
• Emergency Response/Accident Management
• Decommissioning strategies
Lifetime management
• Generic safety issues
• Financial investment
• Research and development
• Procurement of equipment
Emergency Response/Accident Management
Fukushima Daiichi event
• Reviews of nuclear power and chemical plant
• Inspections/walkdown of existing plant
• Inspection of modifications
• Enhanced arrangements
Personal Experience 2010 to 2013/4
Proposed new licensed sites
• Early engagement
• Site boundaries for existing site
• Hinkley Point C Appointment of a site inspector
• Meeting structure
• Engagement with other Regulators