British Energy safety audit

Our initial round of interviews in the U.K. nuclear power industry was conducted in July 1999 with the British nuclear safety authorities— the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (Nil)— and the private nuclear generating company in England (British Energy). A second round of interviews was conducted in January 2000 to follow up on open issues. Additional background information was obtained from discussions with trade union representatives and a local U.K. trade press correspondent. The U.K. interviewees were given considerable latitude to describe the process and impacts of industry restructuring in their own terms, in part because a sensitive audit was still pre-decisional at the time of the interviews. 

SAFETY AUDITS OF BRITISH NUCLEAR FUELS LIMITED AND THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY... 

Since privatization, the Nil has conducted three significant audits that shed light on the impacts of restructuring on nuclear safety management. The first two of these are discussed below. The third major safety audit, of British Energy, is discussed in more detail in the next section. 

U.K. Health and Safety Executive (2000), Safety Management Audit of British Energy Generation Limited and British Energy Generation (UK) Limited, Balliol, United Kingdom, Nuclear Safety Directorate. 

---