Nuclear Directorates role

ND seeks to secure the protection of people and society from the hazards of the nuclear industry, by ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and by influencing the nuclear industry to create an excellent health, safety and security culture.

We achieve this through:

• Working with other regulators and agencies
• Issuing licenses for various aspect of nuclear energy and materials
• Approving security arrangements within the industry and ensuring compliance with those arrangements
• Overseeing the UK’s international commitments on the peaceful use of nuclear energy
• Engaging with all stakeholders in an open and transparent way to inspire confidence in our work

Our Mission

“Securing the protection of people and society from the hazards of the nuclear industry”

The need for change

A bold and challenging plan has now been developed to enable ND to move forward to become a more agile and responsive regulator, effectively responding to a fast changing environment and creating a vibrant successful, open and transparent, world leading organisation.

We have begun implementation by establishing clearly the outcomes we need to achieve, and developing a Transformation Programme to achieve greater regulatory and organisational effectiveness and efficiency in order to deliver them.