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SUMMARY:Current Issues in Nuclear Safety Regulation - Dr Andy Hall\, Offic
 e of Nuclear Regulation
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Andy Hall is a Deputy Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installati
 ons in the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)\, an Agency of the Health &
  Safety Executive (HSE). He is currently leading the ONR’s technical act
 ivities to learn lessons from the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nucle
 ar power station.\nAndy has held a variety of posts since he joined HSE's 
 Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) in 1988. Starting with technical 
 assessments of PWR severe accident analyses\, he then moved to Magnox reac
 tor fault analysis. He has undertaken policy work on international harmoni
 zation of nuclear safety standards\, and was site inspector for the Magnox
  nuclear power station at Bradwell during its operational phase. He has le
 d various Units including a technical assessment unit for the Sellafield\,
  Dounreay and Magnox nuclear reactor sites\, and a site inspection unit re
 sponsible for the nuclear safety regulation of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor
 s (AGRs) and the PWR at Sizewell B. He has most recently been Deputy Chief
  Inspector and Head of the Nuclear Directorate’s Nuclear Power Reactors 
 Division\, Head of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle & Decommissioning Division\, and
  Head of HSE’s Nuclear and Hazardous Installations Policy Division.\nPri
 or to joining NII\, Andy worked in the Safety & Reliability Directorate of
  the UK Atomic Energy Authority undertaking research and technical analyse
 s on severe nuclear reactor accidents\, including the Chernobyl accident. 
 Before this he was an academic and undertook seven years post-graduate and
  post-doctoral research in astrophysics\, having graduated from the Univer
 sity of Oxford with a First Class Honours degree in physics and a Doctorat
 e in theoretical astrophysics. He was a Fellow and Member of Governing Bod
 y of St. Edmund Hall\, one of the Colleges of Oxford University\, and a Fe
 llow of the Royal Astronomical Society.\n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 4
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