Outcome of Safety Audit of Dounreay - including NII SEPA and DSRL comments 2

Page 1 of 15Outcome of 1998 Safety Audit of Dounreay Nuclear Licensed Site SUMMARY In June 1998 a multidisciplinary team of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors and an inspector from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) undertook a safety audit of the Dounreay nuclear licensed site. A report of the findings was published in September 1998, which included recommendations. This report describes what was achieved since 2001 when the last report on progress was published and up to April 2008, when the site was relicensed to Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL). Of the original 143 audit recommendations, 89 were fully closed-out when the 2001 report was written. The work associated with 27 of the 54 open recommendations needed several years to complete. These were placed on a medium term programme. The remaining 27 recommendations were strategic in nature and consequently had long timescales associated with their completion, in some cases extending to several decades. UKAEA’s key milestones for the programmes were included in the Dounreay Site Restoration Plan, which has now been replaced by the Dounreay Lifetime Plan. Regular progress meetings were also held between UKAEA and its regulators to ensure that the overall project timescales were achieved. All the recommendations were closed-out by April 2008. Most of the work associated with implementing the recommendations is also completed. The work required to meet the ...