Kevin Allars, Director of New Build GDA at the HSE, and Joe McHugh, Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation at the Environment Agency, published the third Quarterly Report for 2009 (July-September) today. This provides an update on our work to assess new nuclear power station designs.

In summary, we have continued to make good progress on technical issues and assessment resources. We have continued to work closely with the Requesting Parties, potential operators, overseas regulators and other stakeholders.

Looking forward, the next major milestones are the delivery of the HSE Step 3 reports on 27 November and the start of the Environment Agency’s consultation, on that part of the assessment, around May/June 2010.  We remain on course to complete a meaningful GDA in June 2011.

Generic Design Assessment progress report: 1 July – 30 September 2009 [PDF 206KB]