Not More Nuclear Nasties?

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

Now there?s you thinking the only ?nuclear nasties? adjacent to us were either at Sellafield with its cracked ponds and iffy drainage or Heysham with its creaky old power station which is having the ?service life? rung out of it to keep the United Kingdoms lights on at the moment.

Well you?re wrong, there?s another facility regulated by the UK HSE Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) just across from us in Barrow.

It is Devonshire dock where they work on those new submarines the ones powered by nuclear reactors.

Twelve months ago ONR issued what they call an ?improvement notice? on BAe which runs Devonshire which has just run out.

It would seem that the improvement level is not satisfactory for ONR but ?what the hell? this is the zany world of British Nuclear Regulation so they have just issued a three month extension (see press release):

?ONR grants extension to BAE Systems Marine Ltd

9 December, 2015

The Office for Nuclear Regulation has agreed a three-month extension to an Improvement Notice served on licensee BAE Systems Marine Ltd last year relating to its Devonshire Dock Complex site in Barrow-in-Furness.

ONR