Support for assessment of Hitachi-GE Human Based Safety

1.1 In January 2014 ONR formally started Step 2 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of Hitachi General Electric’s (Hitachi-GE) UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR). Hitachi-GE is the Requesting Party for the UK ABWR GDA (referred to as “the RP” in this specification). 1.2 Step 2 involved an overview of the acceptability, in accordance with the regulatory regime of Great Britain, of the design fundamentals, including review of key nuclear safety and nuclear security claims with the aim of identifying...