Collection: Nuclear Safeguards Bill
Updated: 2nd quarterly Euratom report to Parliament published
The measures in the Bill will amend the Energy Act 2013 to:
- replace the Office for Nuclear Regulation’s existing nuclear safeguards purposes with a new nuclear safeguards purposes definition
- create new powers for the Secretary of State to put in place in regulations the detail of the domestic safeguards regime, such as accounting, reporting, control and inspection arrangements
- create a limited power for the Secretary of State to amend the existing regulations so that references to international agreements can be updated once new international agreements have been reached
The UK has been a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency since its formation in 1957 and will continue to apply civil nuclear safeguards in the UK.