It's been a little while since I last wrote to you due to a slight pause in our normal external communications during the run-up to the General Election which has now brought a new government, ruling party and Prime Minister leading the country.
We will work with the new administration and any ambitions it has for the nuclear sector while maintaining our role as the independent regulator to always ensure the highest standards of safety, security and safeguards within the industry and for the public.
A lot has happened in the last two months, with our granting of a nuclear site licence for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant and our Corporate Plan for 2024/25 being published in Parliament - setting out our role of influencing improvements and holding the industry to account where there have been shortfalls.
We have also progressed the prosecution of Sellafield Limited for information technology security shortfalls as we continue to urge dutyholders to ensure they have the required leadership skills to tackle cyber security risks – an ongoing regulatory priority for the industry - and manage these appropriately.
Finally, we were very proud to share that our interim Chair Judith Hackitt was recently presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering for her longstanding contributions to chemical and systems engineering and engineering safety.
If you haven’t already visited our new website, I’d urge you to take a look and hope you find it a more modern and accessible platform on which to find information about ONR and our past and ongoing work and decisions.
As always, if you have any comments about ONR, any of the topics included in this newsletter, or our work in general, please get in touch via contact@onr.gov.uk.
Best wishes
Rachel Grant Director of Policy and Communications | 
