The ONR has recently published its report on stress testing of UK nuclear power stations following the Fukushima incident. The report finds that there are "no major weaknesses" but does call for on-going improvements. Particular areas to be targetted are flood defence and coolant supply enhancement. I guess this is only to be expected given what happened at Fukushima.
While all this is reassuring for the current fleet we should remember that much of this will be retired in the not-to-distant future and that we'll be building a whole new phase of PWRs. Making sure that these are robust from the outset is massively important.
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