GDA document library page
Throughout GDA, Hitachi-GE made extensive submission to the regulators. In line with the guidance underpinning the assessment, major submissions were published via this website.
Below are links to our key regulatory submission, which reflect the culmination of the process: the Generic Pre-Construction Safety Report (PCSR), and Generic Environmental permit (GEP).
We also publish links to a disposability assessment from the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the NDA.
In parallel, the regulators publish extensive documentation explaining their assessment, their conclusions, and their decisions and have joint web pages further explaining their role and the assessment.
In line with UK regulation, sensitive nuclear information and information restricted under export control legislation has been removed from these publications, as has commercially sensitive content.
Final GDA Submissions
Published materials, 14th December 2017
Pre-Construction Safety report (PCSR)
- Master Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Generic Site Envelope
- Chapter 3 - Site Characteristics (Not Included in Generic PCSR)
- Chapter 4 - Safety Management throughout Plant Lifecycle
- Chapter 5 - General Design Aspects
- Chapter 6 - External Hazards
- Chapter 7 - Internal Hazards
- Chapter 8 - Structural Integrity
- Chapter 9 - General Description of the Unit (Facility)
- Chapter 10 - Civil Works and Structures
- Chapter 11 - Reactor Core
- Chapter 12 - Reactor Coolant Systems, Reactivity Control Systems
and Associated Systems - Chapter 13 - Engineered Safety Featuress
- Chapter 14 - Control and Instrumentation
- Chapter 15 - Electrical Power Supplies
- Chapter 16 - Auxiliary Systems
- Chapter 17 - Steam and Power Conversion Systems
- Chapter 18 - Radioactive Waste Management
- Chapter 19 - Fuel Storage and Handling
- Chapter 20 - Radiation Protection
- Chapter 21 - Human-Machine Interface
- Chapter 22 - Emergency Preparedness
- Chapter 23 - Reactor Chemistry
- Chapter 24 - Design Basis Analysis
- Chapter 25 - Probabilistic Safety Assessment
- Chapter 26 - Beyond Design Basis and Severe Accident Analysis
- Chapter 27 - Human Factors
- Chapter 28 - ALARP Evaluation
- Chapter 29 - Commissioning
- Chapter 30 - Operation
- Chapter 31 - Decommissioning
- Chapter 32 - Spent Fuel Interim Storage
Generic Environmental Permit (GEP)
- Chapter 1 - Summary of the Generic Environmental Permit Applications
- Chapter 2 - Generic Site Description
- Chapter 3 - Approach to Optimisation
- Chapter 4 - Radioactive Waste Management Arrangements
- Chapter 5 - Demonstration of BAT
- Chapter 6 - Approach to Sampling and Monitoring
- Chapter 7 - Quantification of Discharges and Limits
- Chapter 8 - Prospective Dose Modelling
- Chapter 9 - Other Environmental Regulations
- Chapter 10 - Alignment with the Radioactive Substances Regulation Environmental Principles (REPs)
Additional Relevant Documents
- RWM assessment report on UK ABWR waste and spent fuel disposability – Public Report
- RWM assessment report on UK ABWR waste and spent fuel disposability:
- Hitachi-GE Response to RWM assessment report on UK ABWR waste and spent fuel disposability