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An important Technical Assessment Guide has been written to replace the previous guidance to deliver more proportionate, risk-informed and fit-for-purpose regulation. 

As the Nuclear Industry Safety Culture Inventory (NISCI) marks its first anniversary,ONR is encouraging organisations across the industry to consider how the tool can support stronger safety culture and better governance. 

Over the coming months, we will work with TerraPower and fellow regulators to agree interface arrangements, build reactor familiarisation and develop the assessment plans that will guide the formal process ahead.

ONR serves four improvement notices - two each on EDF and contractor Trillium Flow Services UK Ltd - following asbestos related shortfalls at Torness Nuclear Power Station in Scotland.

The streamlined approach signals that lessons learned from the first unit at HPC are already delivering tangible benefits as construction progresses. 

Logistics company XPO Transport Solutions UK Ltd will appear at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday 16 June following a vending machine incident at Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station which left a worker seriously injured.