Magnox South news Thursday 23 October 2008 

Berkeley site is celebrating after achieving all its performance based incentives (PBIs) for this year, with two completed before their due date. These are annual performance targets set by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

The PBIs have been related to its periodic safety review (PSR). The PSR is a legal requirement of the nuclear site licence which constitutes a 10 yearly review of the adequacy of the site safety case and provides justification that it is safe to operate the site for the next 10 years.

The workforce has been working extremely hard to meet the tight timescales imposed by the NDA and by our regulator the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII). The submitted PSR document contains  recommendations for physical works that will need to be undertaken on site to meet the site’s safety case.

The PSR safety case document was delivered ahead of schedule to the NII in August 2008 and the site is currently awaiting a response. If agreed, all physical work identified in the document will have to be completed by August 2009 to meet the regulators requirements.

Jim Crocker, site director said: “I am extremely pleased with all the hard work that has been put in by the workforce to meet some very tight timescales. Meeting all our PBIs ahead of schedule demonstrates our commitment to delivering for the NDA.”