8/22/2018 · The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) told EDF and engineers Doosan Babcock Ltd – the employee – it is bringing proceedings under Health and Safety.
Doosan Babcock and EDF Energy Nuclear Generation both face prosecution over an incident at Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in which a worker was injured in a fall from height. The incident on 12 April 2017 was a conventional health and safety matter and there was no radiological risk to workers or members of the public.
8/22/2018 · The charges relate to an incident – “a fall from height” – in April last year at EDF’s Hinkley Point B power station, which resulted in injury to the latter company’s employee.
EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Ltd and Doosan Babcock Ltd have been fined £200,000 and £150,000 respectively after an employee fell through a skylight at Hinkley Point B power station and suffered ‘life-changing injuries’. The companies were also ordered to each pay half of the prosecution costs.
following an incident where a worker fell from height at Hinkley Point B power station in 2017. Two improvement notices issued to two transport logistics companies on 4 February following breaches in regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials.
7/25/2017 · EDF Energy and Doosan Babcock have been served improvement notices from the Office for Nuclear Regulation after a worker at Hinkley Point B was injured in a fall from height.
11/24/2020 · Hinkely Point B , a gas-fired reactor located on the Bristol Channel coast in south west England, will move into its defueling stage by July, 2022, a few months earlier than originally planned, operator EDF said in a statement Nov. 19. The plant consists of two units, each with a capacity of 660 MWe, and has been generating power since 1976 ( Hinkley Point B -2) and 1978 ( Hinkley, EDF Energy has confirmed it will begin shutting down the 45-year-old reactors at Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset within the next two years, earlier than scheduled. The …
Safety improvements ordered after Hinkley Point B roof fall 25 Jul, 2017 By NCE News The Office for Nuclear Regulation has told EDF Energy Nuclear Generation and Doosan Babcock that they need to make improvements to their management of work at height at Hinkley Point B in Somerset.
EDF and Doosan Babcock fined £350,000 over Hinkley skylight fall Open-access content 4th February 2019 EDF-NGL is the nuclear site license holder at Hinkley Point B and Doosan Babcock is a contractor that undertakes work at the site on its behalf.
