Nuclear Power Stations: Design

Dr. Whitehead
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which vendors of nuclear reactor designs had submitted letters to the regulator’s joint programme office by 30 June nominating the designs for which they intend to seek generic design assessment in the UK.

Malcolm Wicks
The closing date for applications for generic design assessment of nuclear reactor designs to reach the regulator’s joint programme office was 22 June 2007.

We received four applications by this date. These were from: AECL, AREVA, GE-Hitachi and Toshiba-Westinghouse. A press notice was issued on 5 July 2007 accordingly.

All applications and supporting letters of endorsement will be published on the Department’s website in due course.