Dungeness B power station
The charges connect to an occurrence on 13th June 2022 at Dungeness B power station in Kent, where a specialist continual foot injuries while operating in the area of the primary cooling water discharge valves.
The very first hearing versus EDF Energy and Trillium Flow Services Ltd is set up to occur at Folkestone Magistrates Court on 19th March 2024.
The event was a standard health and wellness matter, and there was no radiological danger to the general public. The prosecution notification comes in the very same month that the Office for Nuclear Regulation has actually served 2 enhancement notifications on EDF Energy for its management of nuclear power stations.
On 9th February the ONR served an enhancement notification on EDF following another event at Dungeness B that saw a worker suffer an electrical shock from a portable heating unit while carrying out upkeep work last November.
Because circumstances, EDF had actually stopped working to make sure the electrical systems were built and preserved in a manner that avoided risk to their employees, up until now as is fairly practicable.
The following week, on 14th February, the ONR served another enhancement notification on following a steam leakage on 23rd December at Heysham 1 power station in Lancashire. A valve managing the circulation of superheated steam stopped working while Reactor 1 was being gone back to service. Nobody was hurt and there was no danger to nuclear security, the general public or the environment however ONR determined the capacity for severe injury, had actually anybody been near the valve.
When once again, as at Dungeness, upkeep treatments at Heysham were discovered to be doing not have.
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