Independent report

Operational safety review, Torness nuclear power station, 2019

A team of experts conducted a review of operational safety at Torness nuclear power station on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 9 July 2020

Documents

OSART follow-up mission to Torness nuclear power station

PDF, 3.13 MB, 144 pages

OSART follow-up mission to Torness nuclear power station: government response to the report

PDF, 123 KB, 4 pages

Details

The IAEA Operational Safety Review Team (OSART), an independent team of experts, led a mission to review operational safety at Torness nuclear power station in September 2019.

This was a follow-up to the 2018 OSART mission to Torness which highlighted a number of good practices and made some recommendations for the site.

This OSART report shows that good progress has been made on the mission team’s earlier findings at Torness.

The government has published its response to the report.

Published 9 July 2020