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The Environment Agency, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Natural Resources Wales (the regulators) have an assessment process which enables them to scrutinise new nuclear power station designs before they are built in the UK. This process is called generic design assessment (GDA).

Step 1 of theGE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy International LLC (UK Branch) GDAformally began on 25 January 2024.

The regulators have now completed Step 1 of theGDAand the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales have issued a joint Step 1 statement of findings on the GE-Hitachi BWRX-300SMRdesign. This statement is published here, along with a report of the findings and a public summary of the report. Aversion of the report in Welshis published on the Natural Resources Wales website.ONRs reports are published on thejointGDAwebpages.

Any nuclear power station design company going throughGDAis required to set up a public comments process. Make a comment on theGE-Hitachi website.

TheGDAprocess is described in theGDAguidance for Requesting Parties.

For any questions about these reports, email:nuclear@environment-agency.gov.uk.