Nuclear Information Service is calling for the Royal Navy's nuclear propulsion programme to be included within the scope of the Health and Safety Executive's review of the UK nuclear industry following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The UK's nuclear submarines are powered by pressurised water reactors (PWR) but, according to an
official report, the Navy's nuclear reactor programme “currently falls short of current relevant good practice.
NIS has written to Mike Weightman, HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations, to point out that the Navy's nuclear programme is probably an area of higher risk than the civil nuclear sector yet receives far less scrutiny of its operations, and asking for it to be included in the review to learn lessons from the Fukushima accident which the government has requested.
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