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The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation's (and its HSE predecessor's) Generic Design Assessment: the stepwise safety review of new nuclear power plant reactor designs before site-specific licensing, including the assessment stages, the design issues raised for resolution, and design acceptance outcomes for specific designs (e.g. EPR, AP1000, ABWR, SMRs).

The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation's Generic Design Assessment identified dozens of issues in new reactor designs requiring resolution before design acceptance
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