‘Lax’ nuclear security leaving UK at risk of cyber attacks from hostile nations

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and parliamentary candidate for Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey, in the Training Control Room during a visit to Sizewell in Suffolk has plunged by a fifth in recent years despite a significant rise in the number of security incidents over the same period, official figures show.

Security incidents reported to the ONR are both physical and cyber, with protesters and individuals gaining unauthorised access to the sites as well as hostile states targeting the UK’s nuclear infrastructure.It follows warnings from the National Cyber Security Centre of the heightened threat of “state-aligned groups against western critical national infrastructure” linked to Russia, including the UK’s nuclear power stations.

The overall number of inspections has fallen by 30 per cent since 2015, when there were 240 inspections, compared to 2023 when 153 checks were carried out.Dr Paul Dorfman, the chair of the Nuclear Consulting Group and a former secretary of the government’s committee examining radiation risks of internal emitters , told: “Covid allowed ONR to ramp ‘at-distance virtual inspection’.

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