The British Energy Approach To Periodic Safety Review Of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors

摘要

British Energy (BE) operates seven Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) in the United Kingdom, in addition to the Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) NPP at Sizewell and the coal-fired plant at Eggborough. During the early 1990s, the UK regulator, Her Majesty's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (HMNII), introduced Nuclear Site Licence Condition 15 (LC 15) which requires commercial nuclear power plant operators in the United Kingdom to perform a comprehensive, systematic periodic review and reassessment of the safety cases for each of their NPPs. Under the arrangements agreed for implementing LC 15, these reviews are conducted every ten years.