Executive summary
Date(s) of inspection:
February 2026
Aim of inspection
Licence Condition (LC)28 requires the licensee to make and implement adequate arrangements for the regular and systematic examination, inspection, maintenance and testing of all plant which may affect safety. For any plant or process that is shut down for the purpose of enabling these activities, LC30 requires ONR to provide consent before said plant or process is started up again.
The aims of this inspection were:
- To provide regulatory confidence in the arrangements for EIMT activities, as outlined within the Torness (TOR) Unit 2 outage intentions document for the 2026 (S13R2) statutory outage, and their implementation in relation to electrical engineering.
- To provide evidence to support an ONR decision relating to the issue of a Licence Instrument for a consent for return to service of Unit 2 at TOR, from the statutory outage, through completion of the relevant work activities.
- An additional aim of this inspection was to provide evidence on station’s compliance against the specific topic area of electrical safety and the requirements of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (E@WR)
Subject(s) of inspection
- LC28 - Examination, inspection, maintenance and testing - Rating: Green
Key findings, inspector's opinions and reasons for judgement made
The inspection activities undertaken at EDF Energy NGL Torness (TOR) focused on the arrangements that have been established for the completion of the TOR Unit 2 2026 statutory outage (SO)(R2/2026) and their implementation. The aim was to provide ONR with regulatory confidence in the implementation of the arrangements for the TOR unit 2 2026 SO (R2/2026). This inspection considered the electrical engineering (EE) structures, systems and components (SSCs) that are being maintained during the TOR unit 2 2026 SO (R2/2026) in compliance with licence condition 28, this included sampling the essential services building (ESB) switch room, turbine hall switch room, generator transformer 2 and the cooling water pumps.
From the sample inspected, EDF Energy NGL adequately demonstrated the implementation of the arrangements established for the TOR unit 2 2026 SO (R2/2026) activities, including inspection and observation of the actual condition of the station’s electrical SSCs, progress against the station’s unit 2 SO (R2/2026) plan, management of emergent issues and completion of work order cards, in accordance with licence condition 28.
Conclusion
On the basis of the evidence sampled at the time of the inspection, I judged that EDF NGL were able to adequately demonstrate the implementation of arrangements in compliance with licence condition 28 at TOR. Noting ONR guidance on inspection ratings, it is my opinion that a rating of GREEN – no formal action is merited here.
On the basis of the evidence sampled at the time of the inspection, there were no issues identified from an electrical engineering perspective which would prevent ONR granting consent for TOR to return to service at this point.