• Public Consultation of Revised WENRA Safety Reference Levels

    27 November 2013

    WENRA's Reactor Harmonisation Working Group (RHWG) has reviewed WENRA Safety Reference Levels (SRLs) for existing reactors in the light of the lessons learnt from the TEPCO Fukushima accident. The revised SRLs are now subject to a 3 month public consultation for the period beginning on 1 December 2013 and ending on 28 February 2014. WENRA invites all interested stakeholders to comment on the proposals before they will be finalized. More

  • WENRA Visit to Chernobyl

    15 November 2013

    On the occasion of the WENRA Plenary meeting in Kiev / Ukraine, the chief national regulators for nuclear safety of Europe have visited Chernobyl to get an updated impression of the nuclear accident of 1986 in Ukraine. "For us regulators, it is important to be constantly aware of what can happen when safety is not given the highest priority," said Hans Wanner on the occasion of the one-day visit at Chernobyl. More

  • European centre of competence for Nuclear Safety

    Our mission

    WENRA is an Association of the heads of Nuclear Regulatory Authorities of the European Union’s EU countries with nuclearpower plants NPPs and Switzerland. There were two main reasons why the head of regulators for nuclear safety within the European Union and Switzerland decided to start a co-operation in 1999 in the framework of WENRA (Western European Nuclear Regulators Association). More about us

  • WENRA Recommendation

    The reactor pressure vessels in every European NPP should be subjected to a standardised review to check for manufacturing flaws.

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  • Safety Reference Levels

    WENRA Working Groups define requirements for key issues on the base of selected IAEA requirements and regulatory experience.

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  • Switzerland: The first NPP is to be shut down in 2019

    27 November 2013Muehleberg will be the first Swiss nuclear power plant to shut down. Swiss energy company BKW has decided to close its facility in the region of Berne earlier than planned already in 2019, due to financial reasons. More

  • Andy Hall new Chief Inspector of UK Office for Nuclear Regulation

    13 November 2013UK Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR has an new Chief Nuclear Inspector to lead its regulatory activity: Dr Andy Hall, currently ONR’s First Deputy Chief Nuclear Inspector, was appointed following an open recruitment exercise, chaired by an independent Civil Service Commissioner. He will be initially in post for a three year, fixed term, basis. More

  • WENRA Autumn Meeting Kiev 2013

    11 November 2013The WENRA Autumn Plenary Meeting 2013 took place in the Ukrainian capital Kiev from November 13 to 14. Highlights of the programme of the meeting were the further debate on the new strategy of WENRA, a discussion of the upcoming review conference of the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) and the approval of the activities of the Working Groups. More

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