The Office for Nuclear Regulation’s latest sector-wide assessment reports that UK nuclear installations remain “safe and secure” but warns that leadership improvements are “not yet been sufficiently embedded” and that cyber security “maturity” is below expected levels. ONR points to uneven adoption of robust safety culture and governance practices across licensees, alongside gaps in digital risk management for operational technology and plant control systems. Civil and nuclear engineers can expect closer scrutiny of leadership competence, cyber‑resilience measures and organisational learning in safety case development and asset management.

Final repairs have been completed on Godstone High Street, Surrey, 18 months after a major sinkhole caused a full closure and extensive ground stabilisation works. Engineers had to rebuild the carriageway and underlying formation, install new buried services and reinstate drainage after the collapse exposed significant voiding beneath the road. The incident is prompting local authorities and designers to review ground investigation scope, utility mapping and monitoring on similar chalk and solution-feature-prone corridors.

W G Carter Limited has been fined £120,000 plus £5,247 costs at Bristol Magistrates Court after 59-year-old worker Richard “Felix” Roper died falling from a stripped first floor onto a concrete ground slab at a barn house in Nether Westcote. A joint HSE and Gloucestershire Police investigation found work at height was not properly planned or supervised, with workers allowed onto joists where floorboards and structural supports had been removed while others continued lifting boards. After a Prohibition Notice, the firm switched to installing replacement joists from below using work-at-height equipment and blocking access to the first floor.