Our Technical Directorate ensures that we have the resources to effectively regulate the safety and security of the UK nuclear industry against modern standards in an enabling manner.
It does this by:
- Leading and managing the regulatory disciplines in a manner that motivates, inspires and engenders the confidence of staff, optimises people skills and performance;
- Ensuring ONR guidance is current, reflects relevant good practice and international standards and that it is consistently applied across divisions;
- Developing ONR's approach to regulating innovation;
- Defining and delivering ONR's nuclear research requirements;
- Resolving technical differences in opinion within ONR;
- Developing and implementing learning from operational experience and other sources of internal and external information (regulatory intelligence) to ensure targeted and proportionate regulation; and
- Strengthening ONR's regulatory capability and capacity through developing expertise, learning, and knowledge management strategies across all our regulatory specialisms.