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News Release from: HSE Health and Safety Executive | Subject: Statement of Nuclear Incidents, Q3 2005
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 November 2005
Incidents at British nuclear
installations Q3 2005
For the period 1 July 2005 to 30 September 2005 there were no incidents at a British nuclear licensed installation that met the Ministerial reporting criteria.
A statement on incidents at nuclear installations in Britain that meet Ministerial reporting criteria is sent to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Secretary of State for Scotland and is published every quarter by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) For the period 1 July 2005 to 30 September 2005 there were no incidents at a nuclear licensed installation that met the reporting criteria
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The arrangements for reporting nuclear incidents were announced to Parliament by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy on 30 April 1987 (Hansard col 203-204).
A minor modification to the arrangements was announced in a HSE press notice, reference E108:93, of 30 June 1993.
Normally each incident mentioned in the HSE's quarterly incident statements will already have been made public by the licensee or site operator, either through a press statement or by inclusion in the newsletter for the site concerned.
Single copies of 'Statement of Nuclear Incidents at Nuclear Installations: Third Quarter 2005' are available free from the Information Centre, Nuclear Safety Directorate, HSE.
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