EDF Energy: effective op risk management at a nuclear power station

EDF believes the key to nuclear safety is peer review, a strong safety culture and continual oversight. ORR visits EDF and asks what op risk managers could learn from the example set by the UK’s leading nuclear operator

At the Gloucester facility of EDF Energy, the UK subsidiary, one particular wall hanging attracts attention. It’s a large timeline chart, perhaps fifteen feet long, detailing every key date in the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. It continues to be updated as new material is published about the spread of radiation, about the technical and design issues that gave rise to the