This is a review of the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate’s decision not to prosecute Magnox Electric Ltd over its involvement in the Sizewell A radioactive discharge incident of 7 January 2007. The radioactive release arose as a direct consequence of a breach in the pipework of the spent fuel pond water recirculation system resulting in uncontrolled spillage of 40,000 gallons (180m3) of (radio)active water over a period of about 45 minutes. About one-quarter of this spillage discharged completely untreated to the marine environment via the Sizewell A site storm drainage system.
ReviewLost WANO 2000 Assessment for Laguna Verdi NPP Mexico
Confidential World Association of Nuclear Operators inspection report hides significant shortfalls at Laguna Verdi in 2000.
ReviewOlkiluoto 3 Finland – STUK Regulatory Assessment
The substantive findings of this review relate inadequacies and incompleteness of the regulatory assessment at the Construction Licensing stage; if the speed at which STUK completed its assessment facilitated proper examination and testing of the nuclear safety case of this world-first installation of the Generation III EPR nuclear power plant; the failure to publish a full assessment of the plant’s resistance to commercial aircraft crash (previously promised to be an essential nuclear safety prerequisite) and, similarly, the lack of demonstration in any aspect whatsoever that the plant will be sufficiently robust against all reasonably foreseeable terrorist action; and failure to give meaningful account to the radioactive waste management and eventual decommissioning of the plant and its nuclear island at some future time.
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