Catalogue description Office for Nuclear Regulation Website

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This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation's presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is responsible for regulation of nuclear safety and security across the UK. Its mission is to provide efficient and effective regulation of the nuclear industry, holding it to account on behalf of the public.

The establishment of the ONR followed a 2008 review conducted on behalf of the Government into the regulation of the UK civil nuclear industry, which recommended the creation of a single industry specific regulator. The ONR was then created on 1 April 2011 as the safety regulator for the civil nuclear industry in the UK, as a non-statutory agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It was formed from the merger of the HSE's Nuclear Directorate (the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, the Office for Civil Nuclear Security and the UK Safeguards Office) and from 1 June 2011, the Department for Transport's Radioactive Materials Transport Team.

Legislation to establish the ONR was included in the Energy Act 2013, and it was formally launched as an independent statutory corporation on 1 April 2014 whose costs are met by charging fees to the nuclear industry. The ONR now reports to the Department for Work and Pensions, although it also works closely with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.