Consultation outcome

Draft Business Plan: financial year beginning April 2018 to financial year ending March 2021

Updated 29 March 2018

Introduction to the consultation

In this consultation, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority wants to hear from members of the public, nuclear regulators, employees within our Site Licence Companies, trade unions, local authorities, Site Stakeholder Groups, Non-Governmental Organisations and any other organisation or public body. In your response please state whether you are responding as an individual or representing the views of an organisation. If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, please make it clear who the organization represents and, where applicable, how you assembled the views of the members.

We are happy to receive comments on any aspect of our Draft Business Plan and these will be considered where appropriate. When considering responses to this consultation, the NDA will give greater weight to responses that are based on argument and evidence, rather than simple expressions of support or opposition.

This consultation begins on 11 December 2017 and will close on 4 February 2018.

How to respond

By letter, fax or email

You can respond by letter, fax or email using the contact details below. Please address all responses to NDA Business Planning, Business Plan Consultation.

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Confidentiality and data protection

Information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with the access to information regimes (these are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004).

If you want information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please be aware that, under the FOIA, there is a statutory Code of Practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, amongst other things, with obligations of confidence. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. If we receive a request for disclosure of the information, we will take full account of your explanation, but cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the NDA.

The NDA will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act and, in the majority of circumstances, will mean that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.

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Next Steps

The NDA will consider responses it receives to the consultation, and outputs from any NDA events, and revise the Draft Business Plan as appropriate. Subject to approval by the UK and Scottish Governments, the NDA will publish the final version of this document in late March 2018.

Foreword

NDA Chief Executive, David Peattie: "Our mission is clear, clean up the UK's civil nuclear legacy."

NDA Chief Executive, David Peattie

Our mission is clear, clean up the UK’s civil nuclear legacy.

We must conduct it safely, securely and cost-effectively, with the protection of people and the environment at the forefront of our minds.

The end of nuclear fuel reprocessing at Sellafield will begin in 2018 with the closure of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, also known as THORP, followed by the closure of the Magnox Reprocessing Plant in 2020. These are landmark events for us and for the wider community in and around Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most complex nuclear site.

We will have taken a huge stride in advancing our mission when the Magnox site at Bradwell, in Essex, becomes the first NDA site to enter a state of care and maintenance. This means that by 2019 all mobile hazards and the vast majority of the buildings will have been cleared. The main reactor building will be sealed and Bradwell will be left in a safe condition before the remaining buildings are finally demolished towards the end of the 21st century. This achievement will be a fantastic demonstration of our workforce’s ability to safely deal with all the hazards, plants and facilities on a site.

As well as seeing the great progress being made across all areas of our business, the next 3 years will bring significant changes to how the NDA will work. The NDA is learning from the mistakes it made in awarding the contract to run the Magnox sites and has taken steps to improve the way the NDA works.

The NDA has already improved, standardised and simplified many of its processes, increasing its insight and governance over the progress being made on its sites. I have strengthened the team with the addition of a new Commercial Director, new general legal counsel and look forward to a new Nuclear Operations Director joining us early next year. So a busy 3 years ahead as we continue to deliver our mission. We cannot do this alone. Your involvement is crucial.

I was hugely impressed at the NDA’s first stakeholder summit this year by the depth of people’s interest in our work. Maintaining strong relationships is vitally important to the NDA and me personally. I am committed to meeting and listening to as many people as possible from communities around our sites, and those further afield who have a genuine interest in our mission to decommission and clean up the UK’s legacy nuclear sites.

The Group Estate

We are dealing with one of the most complex, long-term, environmental challenges in Britain.

We are responsible for decommissioning 17 nuclear sites. This includes the first generation of Magnox power stations, various research and fuel facilities and our largest, most complex site, Sellafield. The 17 sites are spread across the UK and we take an estate-wide view of the work.

Our core objective is to decommission these sites safely, securely, cost-effectively and in a manner that protects the environment.

How the estate operates

The NDA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The Department and Scottish Ministers are responsible for approving our plans and providing a policy framework for the NDA.

The NDA sets the estate-wide strategy, contract manages the operation of the businesses and specialist subsidiaries and provides performance assurance across the estate to ensure value is delivered for the taxpayer.

The businesses are responsible for delivering NDA group progress through their running of day to day activities. The NDA also has a portfolio of specialist subsidiaries, which operate a range of services which we need to do our work.

How the NDA estate operates

1,046 hectares of nuclear licensed land

17 sites dating from post-war decades

16,000 employees across the estate

12 businesses within the NDA Group

The NDA Group UK map

NDA Corporate Centre

The Energy Act 2004 transferred the assets and liabilities of all the sites included in this Business Plan to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The NDA has 5 offices located across the UK with its headquarters in Cumbria and we employ just over 224 staff. We are accountable for annual expenditure of circa £3 billion.

The NDA is a strategic authority that leads the delivery of the mission through businesses and specialist subsidiaries.

In that leadership role we focus on the following:

Health, safety, security, environment

Underpinning all we do is a commitment to encourage the highest standards of safety, security and environmental responsibility and an open and transparent approach to secure the support and trust of our stakeholders.

We have adopted the principles of:

  • simplification
  • standardisation
  • discipline
  • focus

Strategy and Planning

Our strategy is reviewed every 5 years and provides the framework for delivering our mission on behalf of government. It sets out our strategic direction and long-term objectives and determines what the NDA is going to do to deliver its policy obligations.

We’ve developed a Strategy Management System to support the development of strategic options and make decisions on a series of distinct issues. Our plans set out how we will deliver the key outcomes required to achieve our mission in the right timeframe and within the funding agreed with government.

Governance and Assurance

Implement a governance regime that discharges our legal, regulatory and public service responsibilities to protect the interests of government and taxpayers, employees and stakeholders. We undertake appropriate assurance of delivery to ensure the businesses, the NDA and our subsidiaries deliver the outcomes required to achieve our mission.

Risk based planning and assurance, along with the provision of specialist support, gives confidence to the NDA and our stakeholders that we have the right people, processes and plans in place to ensure that hazards are reducing as planned and that strategy will be delivered. We do this by knowing that projects are being delivered in line with plans and that programmes are on track to deliver the right value for money outcomes within agreed funding limits.

Delivery Optimisation

We seek the optimum mix of businesses to deliver our mission. These range from PBO led SLCs through NDA owned subsidiaries to affiliates. These management arrangements provide a framework for setting out our requirements and expectations and are designed to deliver our desired outcomes. NDA’s central view helps us to make optimised and prioritised estate-wide decisions over the short and long-term.

Manage and Report Performance

We have introduced Quarterly Performance Review (QPR) meetings with our businesses. The QPR is at the heart of performance management, driving discipline around targets, direction, culture, clarity and holding the businesses to account. We report performance of the businesses to government and stakeholders.

We are also focused on getting the right technology, skills and resources in place to help in our mission, as well as ensuring that local communities are supporting socially and economically during and after the clean-up work.

Research and development

One of our responsibilities is to ensure the right amount of R&D is carried out to deliver the full decommissioning programme.

Many ‘never-done-before’ projects require significant innovation and novel engineering approaches.

The aim is to solve the challenging technical problems more effectively, more efficiently and where possible, for less cost to taxpayers.

To maximise the benefits of R&D and avoid duplication, the NDA promotes the estate-wide sharing of good practice and, where appropriate, the adoption of innovative ideas across multiple sites.

Skills

Cleaning up the UK’s nuclear legacy is a long-term environmental challenge that requires different skills in different locations at different times.

It’s vital, based on the foresight we have, that we create an environment now that encourages people, no matter at what stage of their career, to develop the right skills for our mission.

Socio-economics

The NDA’s socio-economic mission is to ‘support the maintenance of sustainable communities’ and our objectives are to:

  • enhance the opportunity for local people to be involved in decommissioning work or other economic activity through education, retraining and skills development
  • support the diversifi cation of local economies into other sectors –reducing the reliance of communities on nuclear sites for employment
  • increase the attractiveness of areas near NDA sites and places to live, work and invest in
  • work with nuclear new build and neighbouring site organisations to work cohesively on socio-economics and maximise potential benefits to the community

NDA Corporate Centre Key Activities

circa £3 billion planned expenditure for 2018/19

We group our activities under 5 strategic themes. This allows us to bring a clear focus to our mission.

  • Site Decommissioning and Remediation: to decommission and remediate our sites and release them for other uses.
  • Spent Fuels: to ensure safe, secure and cost effective lifecycle management of spent fuels.
  • Nuclear Materials: to ensure safe, secure and cost effective lifecycle management of our nuclear materials.
  • Integrated Waste Management: to ensure that wastes are managed in a manner that protects people and the environment, now and in the future, and in ways that comply with government policies and provides value for money.
  • Critical Enablers: to provide the stable and effective implementation framework that enables the delivery of our mission.

Nuclear Materials

Activity Timescale
Work with government to develop a long-term management solution for separated plutonium in the UK Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
The NDA will work with group businesses to explore alternative disposal options for Higher Activity Waste Over the next 3 years

Critical Enablers

Activity Timescale
GDF site selection launch and community engagement for RWM In the next financial year
Undertake health of the supply chain review In the next financial year
Review of NDA operations and implementation of the recommendations from the Holliday Inquiry, NAO landscape report and Public Accounts Committee Over the next 3 years
Manage the existing Magnox Limited contract through to termination; and transition to new arrangements Over the next 3 years
Development of Strategic opportunities that optimise delivery of the mission Over the next 3 years
Manage special nuclear materials consolidation in agreed locations Over the next 3 years
Development and implementation of a Group Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy Over the next 3 years
Work with HMG to implement workforce reforms across NDA group estate Over the next 3 years
Provide support to government on nuclear new build decommissioning plans Over the next 3 years
Working to embed the capability to proactively protect, detect, respond and recover against current and evolving cyber threats Over the next 3 years
Implementation of our strategic people delivery plan to enable resource planning, skills development and flexibility and mobility across the estate Over the next 3 years
Support Small and Medium Enterprise organisations by increasing overall spend with them in line with the government Growth Agenda Over the next 3 years
Performance management of Group Businesses Over the next 3 years

Regulatory matters

Activity Timescale
Continue working with regulators and government to determine institutional controls appropriate to restoration of nuclear sites Over the next 3 years

A look ahead to 2021

The next 3 years will bring a number of landmark achievements across the estate, demonstrating major inroads into our decommissioning mission.

Complete THORP reprocessing in 2018

THORP cooling ponds

Sellafield’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) takes spent nuclear fuel from EDF Energy’s operational power stations and from foreign customers.

The closure of THORP in 2018 remains on track. It will avoid the expense of replacing many of the plants that support its operation. This means we can focus our resources on the primary task of decommissioning and remediation.

The end of reprocessing operations in THORP provides a clear transition point for Sellafield. The site will move from commercial operations to decommissioning and continued management of spent fuel and waste.

All Magnox reactors defueled and fuel transferred by 2019

Calder Hall site

Of the 11 sites that have Magnox reactors, only 2 have yet to complete defueling:

  • Wylfa in Wales will complete in 2018
  • Calder Hall on Sellafield site is scheduled to complete in 2019

All fuel will be transferred for reprocessing, conditioning and/or storage at Sellafield site. This represents the culmination of a complex, logistical and procedural challenge.

By 2018 the radiological hazard on all Magnox sites across the UK will have been reduced by 99%. These sites will prepare to enter a period of quiescence known as the Care and Maintenance (C&M) phase.

Magnox reprocessing complete by end of 2020

Fuel Handling Plant at Sellafield

Closure of the Magnox Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield is based on the latest Magnox Operating Programme and subject to the completion of defueling and the performance of ageing facilities that were built many decades ago.

As a result of completing reprocessing, a series of products will be suitable for interim storage pending disposal or reuse. The conclusion of reprocessing also benefi ts the environment and complies with the UK Strategy for Radioactive Discharges.

Retrievals from the high hazard facilities:Pile Fuel Cladding Silo and Magnox Swarf Storage Silos by

2020/2021

Retrieval of waste at Sellafield's Pile Fuel Cladding Silo

The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo is one of the oldest facilities at Sellafield.

Retrieval of waste from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at Sellafield is scheduled to start 2 years earlier than forecast.

A simplified, ground-breaking approach also reduces the cost of this work by almost £250 million pounds.

First NDA site moves into Care and Maintenance phase by 2019

Bradwell site

Bradwell in Essex is set to be the UK’s first Magnox site to reach the stage of Care and Maintenance, when its 2 reactors and ILW store will be sealed.

This period of reduced activity will last for several decades. Appropriate management arrangements will be required for a regime of site security, monitoring, maintenance and records management.

Low Level Waste Repository: PCM dealt with by 2019

Low Level Waste Repository

A series of concrete bunkers that once stored Plutonium Contaminated Materials (PCM) look set to be demolished at least four years earlier than expected - and for £30 million less than expected.

Located at the Low Level Waste Repository near Drigg, Cumbria, the bunkers were known as magazines and stored PCM generated from operations at Sellafield in the 1950s-1960s.

20 year overview

Download the NDA estate key programmes: 20 year overview

Our funding

Funding framework

The NDA is publicly funded through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), our total planned expenditure is voted upon annually by Parliament. Revenue generated through the commercial activities of the NDA reduce the level of public funding required from Government.

Commercial income

We maximise revenue from our existing assets and operations to help fund decommissioning and clean-up, in order to reduce the level of public funding required to meet the scope of our plans and delivery of the NDA mission. The commercial operations of the NDA are primarily spent fuel and nuclear materials management with additional opportunities identified in providing transportation services.

We will pursue all commercial opportunities using our existing assets, operations and people where it does not materially impact on our core mission or increase our liabilities. The nature of our current commercial activities means we have to manage a significant degree of income volatility, largely due to our operations relying on ageing assets and infrastructure.

Prioritisation and allocation of funding

Within affordability constraints, we will seek to maintain progress and maximise value for money through the effective implementation of our strategy. This will mean focussing on delivery of work on the highest hazards and risks, whilst ensuring that safe, secure and environmentally responsible site operations are maintained.

Planned income and expenditure in 2018/2019

This Business Plan sets out our anticipated income and expenditure for 2018/2019 as agreed with HM Treasury and BEIS. Our total planned expenditure for 2018/2019 is £3.146 billion, of which £2.269 billion will be funded by UK Government and £0.877 billion by income from commercial operations. Planned expenditure on site programmes will be £2.967 billion, while non-site expenditure is expected to be £0.179 billion. This non-site expenditure includes skills development, socio-economic, research and development (R&D), insurance and pension costs, fees to businesses, implementing geological disposal and NDA operating costs as detailed below.

Planned income and expenditure summary 2018/19[footnote 1]

Businesses and specialist subsidiaries Decom & Clean-up Costs £M Total Operations Running Costs £M Total Operations Capital Expenditure Costs £M 2018/19 Plan Total £M 2017/18 Plan Total £M
Sellafield Ltd (including gas costs for steam) 1,142 641 217 2,000 2,000
Trading and Gas Costs (Sellafield) 24     24 24
Magnox Ltd 490     490 572
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd 192     192 189
LLWR Ltd 79     79 75
Springfields Fuels Ltd 20     20 34
Capenhurst 55     55 61
Nuclear Transport and Contract Management   109   109 106
Non-Site Expenditure 179     179 177
TOTAL 2,179 749 217 3,146 3,239
Income       877 879
Net       2,269 2,360

Summary of NDA funding (2018/19 onwards)

Summary of NDA funding 2018/19 £M 2019/20 £M 2020/21 £M
Income 877 1,154 to be confirmed in next spending review
Government Funding 2,269 1,988 to be confirmed in next spending review
Expenditure (3,146) (3,142) to be confirmed in next spending review
Balance 0 0 to be confirmed in next spending review

2018/19 breakdown of non-site expenditure

Non-site expenditure 2018/19 Plan £M 2017/18 Plan £M
NDA Operating Costs 41 41
Radioactive Waste Management Limited 30 26
Socio Economic, Skills, R&D, Knowledge Management, Other 31 31
Estate Insurance 16 16
NDA Properties, Policy Support, NDA Asset decommissioning 17 20
Contractor Fees 43 43
Total 179 177

2018/19 breakdown of planned income by category

Income source 2018/19 Plan £M 2017/18 Plan £M
Reprocessing and Fuel Management Services 761 770
Electricity Generation 0 9
NDA - INS Transport 74 63
Intra Site Services 42 37
Total 877 879

Our Businesses (sites)

Sellafield Limited

Sellafield site

£2 billion planned expenditure for 2018/19

265-hectare site in Cumbria

  • All 265 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence

  • Modifications of designating direction signed by the Minister in Jan 2012

On the 1 April 2016 Sellafield Limited became a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDA.

Current milestones:

  • completion of THORP reprocessing in 2018
  • implement and embed the long-term partnership supply chain in Major Projects (Programme and Project Partner) by 2019
  • begin retrievals from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo and Magnox Swarf Storage Silos by 2020
  • completion of Magnox reprocessing including defueling of Calder Hall by 2020

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

The areas of principal focus are the redundant Legacy Ponds and Silos facilities, made up of the Pile Fuel Storage Pond, Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, First Generation Magnox Storage Pond and Magnox Swarf Storage Silo. These facilities supported the development of the nuclear programme in the UK from the early 1950s. Latterly, they have supported the generation from the fleet of Magnox power stations. The programmes include the removal of nuclear fuel, sludge and solid material which require the provision of equipment to retrieve the various wastes and then treat and store them in passive condition.

This process needs to take into account the role of Integrated Waste Management in achieving hazard reduction and long-term safety, security and environmental protection requirements.

Activity Description Timescale
Pile Fuel Storage Pond Continue sustained sludge exports.
Ready to start dewatering.
Over the next 3 years
Pile Fuel Cladding Silo Completion of Inactive Safety commissioning of Box Encapsulation Plant and Product Store,(BEPPS)/Direct Import facility (DIF).
Commence inactive commissioning of waste retrieval equipment.
Move to volume production of 3m3 boxes, Begin retrievals from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo
Over the next 3 years
First Generation Magnox Storage Pond Commence Bulk sludge removal from D Bay.
Continue to export fuel and sludge from the pond.
Over the next 3 years
Magnox Swarf Storage Silo Implement the revised Magnox Swarf Storage Silo Strategy.
Complete active commissioning of SEP 2 (Silo Emptying Plant).
Commence SEP1 (Silo Emptying Plant) Phase 1 active commissioning.
Silos Maintenance Facility complete.
First export of waste through the Encapsulated Product Store (waste treatment route).
Progress the project for the bulk manufacture of 3m3 boxes.
Begin retrievals from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo.
Over the next 3 years
Decommissioning Continue the decommissioning and demolition of Windscale Pile Chimney Number 1.
Continue the demolition of SEP Head End Stack.
Complete the removal of remaining gloveboxes from Finishing Line 3.
Over the next 3 years

Spent Fuels

All of the spent fuels discharged from the operating Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor power stations and defueling Magnox power stations reactors are sent to Sellafield for management. The management of AGR fuel under contracts with EDF Energy provides a significant income stream to the NDA.

Activity Timescale
Completion of THORP reprocessing In the next financial year
Continue to receive and manage AGR spent fuel from EDF Energy Over the next 3 years
Continue to reprocess Magnox spent fuel in line with MOP9 Over the next 3 years
Completion of Magnox reprocessing. From 2019 to 2021

Nuclear Materials

Sellafield is the custodian of the majority of the UK’s stockpile of plutonium which is held in safe and secure storage. Consolidation of materials is an ongoing activity and will continue to be part of the site’s mission.

Activity Timescale
Continue the safe and secure storage of plutonium in line with UK policy Over the next 3 years
Continue to receive and securely store special nuclear materials from Dounreay Over the next 3 years
Ensure safe, secure management of our uranics inventory Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

The various activities of the site produce wastes in many forms. These require varying degrees of treatment and onward processing. The site will continue to focus on safe, efficient management of these wastes, including:

  • the conversion of Highly Active Liquor (HAL) into passively safe vitrified waste
  • the return of vitrified material overseas
  • the management of on-site intermediate and low level wastes
Activity Timescale
Continue to process HAL through the Waste Vitrification Plant Over the next 3 years
Continue the programme to repatriate overseas owned vitrified waste to its country of origin Over the next 3 years
Continue to generate savings and preserve capacity at the LLW Repository by diversion of materials into the supply chain for alternate treatment Over the next 3 years
Continue the programmes to receive and treat waste materials from Harwell and AWE Aldermaston Over the next 3 years

Critical Enablers

A number of key enabling activities require specific focus, ranging from infrastructure refurbishment or replacement projects, in support of the above activities, through to key change programmes which aim to improve operational delivery and efficiency on site.

Activity Timescale
Continue the Sellafield security and resilience enhancement programme Over the next 3 years
Continue with improvements to the site utilities infrastructure Over the next 3 years
Continue the Sellafield Limited Transformation to support future business requirements Over the next 3 years
Continue the project to improve and replace Analytical Services. Over the next 3 years
Progress the improvement of Project delivery on site Over the next 3 years
Support Small and Medium Enterprise organisations by targeting overall spend with them in line with the government Growth Agenda. Over the next 3 years
Continuation of information assurance activities and supporting processes Over the next 3 years
Prepare the business to move out of reprocessing Over the next 3 years
Implement and embed the long-term partnership with the supply chain in Major Projects (PPP) Over the next 3 years
Work collaboratively with NuGen to manage issues and opportunities arising from the neighbouring Moorside site Over the next 3 years
Progress with the project to provide contingency against failure of vessels and pipework in the Site Ion # Exchange Plant Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
Continue joint working between Office for Nuclear Regulation, Environment Agency, Sellafield Ltd, NDA, UKGI and BEIS with the overriding objective of accelerating risk and hazard reduction Over the next 3 years
Reduce environmental risk (including retrieval and treatment of legacy wastes, reduction of HAL stocks) Over the next 3 years
Minimise discharges in line with UK discharge strategy Over the next 3 years
Ongoing delivery of the suite of improvements necessary to ensure that the site is resilient to severe events Over the next 3 years
Maintain an asset management regime that takes into account the impact of asset condition on meeting regulation Over the next 3 years

Magnox Limited

Operated by Parent Body Organization: Cavendish Fluor Partnership - Cavendish Nuclear and Fluor Corporation

Magnox Ltd is the SLC responsible for the operation of 12 sites Berkeley, Bradwell, Chapelcross, Dungeness A, Harwell, Hinkley Point A, Hunterston A, Oldbury, Sizewell A, Trawsfynydd, Winfrith and Wylfa (see pictures below reading left to right, top to bottom).

The 12 Magnox sites

£490 million planned expenditure for 2018/19

The Magnox Business Plan is based upon the latest annual update of the Lifetime Performance Plan.

The NDA will monitor and assure performance, reporting on the delivery of the revised contract to termination and the associated contract fee milestones. Key milestones, known as Authority Milestones, are required to be delivered by defined dates.

The NDA requires Magnox SLC to support transition to the new operating model and to manage defueling of the Magnox reactor fleet; progress the preparations to enter Care and Maintenance, achieving a quiescent Interim State and ultimately Final Site Clearance of the Magnox sites.

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Bradwell to achieve its Interim State and move into the effective care and maintenance phase In the next financial year
Continuation of estate decommissioning and demolition activities working towards Interim States Over the next 3 years
Continue preparations for Winfrith to enter its Interim State. Over the next 3 years

Spent Fuels

Activity Timescale
Management of MOP9 and co-ordination of Magnox fuel management activities with Sellafield and Dounreay Over the next 3 years
Completion of Magnox fuel flask fleet management and transfer responsibility to Sellafield Ltd Over the next 3 years
Progression of Wylfa defueling Over the next 3 years

Nuclear Materials

Activity Timescale
Continuation of the programme for the transfer of nuclear materials Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Delivery of the Magnox elements of the estate-wide low level waste management plan including diversion to alternative treatment Over the next 3 years
Progression of activities to retrieve, process and package wastes Over the next 3 years
Asbestos management – Continued focus on the major risk of asbestos including production of an optimised, underpinned strategy for asbestos, without detriment to C&M Over the next 3 years

Critical Enablers

Activity Timescale
Support to the Government in activities to deliver the new build agenda and preparations for decommissioning the AGR fleet Over the next 3 years
Continuation of information governance activities and supporting processes Over the next 3 years
Support Small and Medium Enterprise organisations by targeting overall spend with them in line with # government Growth Agenda Over the next 3 years
Support to NDA in property activities to reduce NDA decommissioning liability and achieve best value on asset disposal Over the next 3 years
Development of Interim End State approaches, utilising revised management arrangements Over the next 3 years
Enacting management arrangements for Care and Maintenance state Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
Ensuring the management arrangements for Interim State are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the transfer of Nuclear Materials between sites Over the next 3 years
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Interim End State definition and arrangements for Winfrith Over the next 3 years

Berkeley

27-hectare site in Gloucestershire

11 hectares have been de-designated

16 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence

  • modification of Designating Direction signed by the Minister in January 2012

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2023
  • final site clearance begins by 2070
  • final site clearance achieved by 2079

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Continuation of retrieval and packaging activities in the active waste vaults Over the next 3 years
Continuation of design and commissioning of shielded area waste retrieval equipment. Over the next 3 years
Continuation of waste retrieval plant design, commissioning and packaging Over the next 3 years
Design and Build of encapsulation facility Over the next 3 years

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities ongoing in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance. Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements In the next financial year
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Berkeley ILW Management Programme Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Bradwell

20-hectare site in Essex.

  • All 20 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2018
  • final site clearance begins by 2083
  • final site clearance achieved by 2092

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance In the next financial year
Ponds complex and contaminated structures (vaults) completed for entry into Care and Maintenance In the next financial year
Completion of final closures for Reactor buildings safestore In the next financial year
Site completes activities to enable entry into effective Care and Maintenance In the next financial year
Interim State of lead site achieved In the next financial year

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Completion of transition management arrangements for Care and Maintenance In the next financial year

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements In the next financial year
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with # Regulators In the next financial year
Ongoing monitoring of care and maintenance phase From 2019 to 2021

Chapelcross

96-hectare site in Dumfries and Galloway

  • All 96 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2025
  • final site clearance begins by 2085
  • final site clearance achieved by 2095

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Continuation of pond operations In the next financial year
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years
Preparations for pond draining and stabilisation From 2019 to 2021

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
ILW retrievals In the next financial year
Interim storage facility constructed and commissioned In the next financial year
Encapsulation facility Design and Build complete From 2019 to 2021

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Dungeness A

20-hectare site in Kent

  • All 20 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2025
  • final site clearance begins by 2087
  • final site clearance achieved by 2097

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Ponds cleaned and stabilised In the next financial year
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Increase waste conditioning facility capability In the next financial year
Retrievals, treatment and transport of ILW Over the next 3 years
Bulk asbestos removal from reactor buildings Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Harwell

108-hectare site in Oxfordshire

22 hectares have been de-designated

  • 86 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

  • Modification of Designating Direction signed by the Minister in December 2012 and July 2017.

Current milestones:

  • primary facilities decommissioning complete by 2027
  • reactor decommissioning complete by 2027
  • interim state achieved by 2027-28
  • final site clearance achieved by 2064

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Continuation of Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant (LETP) area environmental restoration Over the next 3 years
Decommissioning and demolition activities Over the next 3 years

Nuclear Materials

Activity Timescale
Continuation of the programme for the transfer of nuclear materials and contact-handled ILW Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Completion of ILW Store construction In the next financial year
Recovery, processing and packaging of solid ILW Over the next 3 years
Preparations for decommissioning of Radium chemistry facilities Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of decommissioning and demolition activities Over the next 3 years
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Hinkley Point A

20-hectare site in Somerset

  • All 20 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2027
  • final site clearance begins by 2081
  • final site clearance achieved by 2090

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years
Complete deplant and demolition of Turbine Hall Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Complete Wet Waste and Vessel consolidations In the next financial year
Continuation of FED retrieval activities Over the next 3 years
Continuation of ILW skip management arrangements Over the next 3 years
Complete waste conditioning facility construction and commissioning Over the next 3 years
Commence preparations for Sludge Canning Building waste retrievals Over the next 3 years
Commence Interim Storage Facility construction and commissioning From 2019 to 2021

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Hunterston A

*15-hectare site in Ayrshire.

  • All 15 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2024
  • final site clearance begins by 2071
  • final site clearance achieved by 2080

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance. Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Completion of solid ILW encapsulation plant construction and mechanical and electrical installation Over the next 3 years
Progressing of ILW retrievals, processing and storage activities Over the next 3 years
Completion of inactive commissioning of solid ILW encapsulation plant From 2019 to 2021

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Oldbury

47-hectare site in South Gloucestershire

  • 32 hectares have been de-designated.

  • 15 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

  • Modification of Designating Direction signed by the Minister in January 2012.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2027
  • final site clearance begins by 2092
  • final site clearance achieved by 2103

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years
Complete ponds decommissioning preparations Over the next 3 years
Complete ponds draining, cleaning and stabilisation From 2019 to 2021

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
ILW retrieval enabling works Over the next 3 years
Progression of activities supporting consolidated ILW storage Over the next 3 years
Commence retrievals, treatment and transport of ILW Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and transitional arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Sizewell A

14-hectare site in Suffolk

  • All 14 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2027
  • final site clearance begins by 2088
  • final site clearance achieved by 2097

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years
Continuation of ponds decommissioning Over the next 3 years
Ponds draining and stabilisation Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
FED retrievals Over the next 3 years
ILW retrieval enabling works Over the next 3 years
Progression of activities to support consolidation of ILW storage Over the next 3 years
Commencement of retrievals, treatment and transport of ILW From 2019 to 2021

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Trawsfynydd

15-hectare site in North Wales

  • All 15 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2029
  • final site clearance begins by 2074
  • final site clearance achieved by 2083

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity | Timescale -|- # Continue developing strategy for ponds End State conditions|Over the next 3 years # Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance|Over the next 3 years # Completion of sludge and resin encapsulation|In the next financial year ####Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
FED retrievals and encapsulation Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of decommissioning and demolition activities Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years

Winfrith

96-hectare site in Dorset

  • 7 hectares have been de-designated

  • 89 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

  • Modification of Designating Direction signed by the Minister in March 2014.

Current milestones:

  • DRAGON reactor complex decommissioning complete by 2022
  • Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) complex decommissioning complete by 2023
  • interim end state achieved by 2023

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
DRAGON – continue reactor decommissioning Over the next 3 years
SGHWR – continue design and build of reactor decommissioning equipment Over the next 3 years
SGHWR – development of the detailed design to remove the reactor core In the next financial year
SGHWR – continue decommissioning of the primary and secondary containment areas. Over the next 3 years
SGHWR – completion of primary containment decommissioning activities In the next financial year
Decommissioning and demolition activities Over the next 3 years

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Commence consolidation of packaged ILW in the Harwell store From 2019 to 2021

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of decommissioning and demolition activities Over the next 3 years
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Interim End State Definition and arrangements for Winfrith Over the next 3 years

Wylfa

21-hectare site in Anglesey

  • All 21 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • site enters Care and Maintenance by 2026
  • final site clearance begins by 2097
  • final site clearance achieved by 2105

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Decommissioning and demolition activities in preparation for entry into Care and Maintenance Over the next 3 years
Provision of support and assets to nuclear new build Over the next 3 years

Spent Fuels

Activity Timescale
Defueling activities in line with MOP9 Over the next 3 years
Completion of Wylfa defueling in line with MOP9 From 2019 to 2021

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Continuation of ILW retrievals and packaging Over the next 3 years
Continuation of waste retrieval enabling activities Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory permissioning in support of the Care and Maintenance entry definitions and arrangements Over the next 3 years
Ensuring the management arrangements for Care and Maintenance are determined and agreed with Regulators Over the next 3 years
Preparations for fuel free verification agreement with the ONR In the next financial year
Complete fuel free verification agreement with the ONR From 2019 to 2021

Dounreay Site Restoration Limited

DSRL is owned by PBO: Cavendish Dounreay Partnership Limited comprising Cavendish Nuclear, CH2M Hill & AECOM.

Dounreay site

DSRL is contracted to carry out the decommissioning of the Dounreay site as well as the operation of the Low Level Waste (LLW) disposal facility next to the licensed site.

In March 2015, a revised Lifetime Plan was approved, incorporating scope to move material from Dounreay to Sellafield, that had not been agreed or finalised when the original contract was signed.

In July 2015, this scope was further updated. Dounreay will continue to deliver within its assigned annual site funding limits, while also delivering the additional scope. The contract extension required for the additional scope is still earlier than the pre-competition baseline for achieving Interim End State.

The activities below give the current understanding of the updated plans and are subject to change.

£192 million planned expenditure for 2018/19

60-hectare site (plus 12 hectares designated for LLW facility) in Caithness

  • 60 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence, the 12 for the LLW facility are designated but not licensed.

  • Modification in designating direction signed by the Minister in Jan 2012.

Current milestones:

  • Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) dismantled by 2025
  • all fuel in long-term storage or shipped off site by 2025
  • Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) dismantled by 2026
  • Shaft and Silo encapsulation complete by 2028
  • site clearance and environmental restoration phase 3 complete by 2030
  • interim end state achieved by 2030 to 2033

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) building complex structures demolished (excluding the reactor) In the next financial year
Decontamination facility (D2900) handover to demolition From 2019 to 2021
Complete POCO of Dounreay Cementation Plant (D2700) From 2019 to 2021

Spent Fuels

Activity Timescale
Unirradiated Uranium Processing plant (D1203) handover to demolition From 2019 to 2021

Nuclear Materials

Activity Timescale
Liquid metal hazard at DFR eliminated From 2019 to 2021
Complete delivery of all fuels from DFR From 2019 to 2021

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
PFR Raffinate immobilisation complete From 2019 to 2021
Silo declassified and backfilled From 2019 to 2021

Critical Enablers

Activity Timescale
Support small and medium enterprise (SME) organisations by measuring and reporting overall spend with them, in-line with the government growth agenda Over the next 3 years

Regulatory Matters

Activity Timescale
NDA and Regulatory Permissioning in support of the Interim End State definition and arrangements for Dounreay Over the next 3 years

Low Level Waste Repository Limited

Operated by PBO:UK Nuclear Waste Management Limited - AECOM, Studsvik UK, Areva

LLWR site

LLWR is responsible for both the operation of the LLW site and the delivery of the National Low Level Waste Programme on behalf of the NDA.

£79 million planned expenditure for 2018/19

96-hectare site in Cumbria

  • All 96 hectares remain covered by the nuclear site licence.

Current milestones:

  • PCM decommissioning complete by 2019
  • Security programme complete by 2019
  • Type B programme complete by 2024
  • final capping of Vault 8 by 2025
  • final site clearance achieved by 2080

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Ongoing site preparation for phased construction of the final cap for trenches 1 to 7 and Vault 8 Over the next 3 years
Complete decommissioning of Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) facilities In the next financial year

Integrated Waste Management

Activity Timescale
Delivery of the National LLW Programme to optimise LLW Strategy implementation. Work with consigning SLC’s to improve waste forecasts and inventory and continue segregated waste, treatment and disposal services. Over the next 3 years
Work with the NDA to support innovation in approaches to waste management Over the next 3 years
Type B Programme fleet commences key transport scope Over the next 3 years
Support hazard reduction across the NDA estate Over the next 3 years
Manage and operate LLWR safely to provide an effective UK disposal service Over the next 3 years

Critical Enablers

Activity Timescale
Complete Site Security Programme In the next financial year
Consideration of options to further optimise operations at the LLWR Over the next 3 years
Continue to pursue overall cost savings in delivery of the Lifetime Plan Over the next 3 years
Support Small and Medium Enterprise organisations by targeting overall spend with them in line with the government Growth Agenda Over the next 3 years

Springfields Fuels Limited (owned by Westinghouse Electric UK Holdings Limited)

£20 million planned expenditure for 2018/19

Springfields is a nuclear fuel manufacturing site and is located near Preston in Lancashire. The site is operated by Springfields Fuels Limited (SFL) and used to manufacture a range of fuel products for both UK and international customers and decommissioning historic uranic residues and redundant facilities.

From April 2010, the NDA permanently transferred ownership of the company to Westinghouse Electric including the freedom to invest for the future under the terms of a new 150 year lease. SFL is contracted to provide defined decommissioning and clean up services to the NDA to address historic liabilities, prior to the transfer.

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Progress decommissioning of the Magnox Fuel Production Facilities Over the next 3 years
Continue management of historical legacy materials and facilities Over the next 3 years

Urenco Nuclear Stewardship Limited (owned by URENCO Limited - formerly known as Capenhurst Nuclear Services Limited)

£55 million planned expenditure for 2018/19

The NDA Capenhurst site is located near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, and was formerly home to uranium enrichment plant and associated facilities that ceased operation in 1982.

In 2012, the site was transferred to URENCO, owners of the adjacent licensed site, and was amalgamated into a single nuclear licence site, paving the way for URENCO to invest in new facilities, in order to meet future customer demand. As part of this transfer, URENCO established Urenco Nuclear Stewardship (UNS), formerly known as Capenhurst Nuclear Services, to provide responsible management of uranic materials and carry out remediation work on behalf of NDA. UNS manages 95% of the NDA’s uranic inventory and provides broader decommissioning and remediation works for redundant facilities, in order to utilise space to maximise efficiency.

NDA and UNS have also signed an agreement for the processing of UK Government-owned by-product/legacy material from uranium enrichment (known as ‘Tails’) through URENCO’s Tails Management Facility.

Site Decommissioning and Remediation

Activity Timescale
Progress Legacy Cylinder Facility Design In the next financial year
Continued safe storage of uranic materials Over the next 3 years

NDA Specialist Subsidiaries

The Nuclear and Caithness Archive at Wick

Radioactive Waste Management Limited

The UK Government’s 2014 White Paper, “Implementing Geological Disposal” establishes NDA’s role as the implementer in a consent-based process to develop a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste. In 2014, NDA established RWM as its delivery body for a GDF.

The White Paper set out a programme of three initial actions to be completed before the siting process could begin (National Geological Screening led by RWM and two BEIS-led actions). These initial actions are now close to completion and the current planning assumption is that the GDF Siting Process will be launched in June 2018.

This approach does not apply in Scotland. The Scottish Government has published ‘Scotland’s Higher Activity Radioactive Waste Policy 20111. Scottish Government Policy states that:

The long-term management of higher activity radioactive waste should be in near-surface facilities. Facilities should be located as near to the site where the waste is produced as possible.

Delivering a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for the UK is mission critical for both the Government and the NDA. The NDA currently has a major programme of decommissioning and waste management across Great Britain; retrieving, packaging and storing waste ready for disposal. A GDF provides an end point for that programme. A safe disposal route for waste is also critical to supporting the Government’s nuclear new build programme, making sure the UK has access to safe, secure, affordable, low-carbon energy.

Waste is being retrieved and packaged now. Over 70,000 packages are already in surface stores awaiting a GDF, and are accumulating at 3,000 packages per year. RWM works with the producers of radioactive waste to ensure that waste being packaged now is suitable for disposal in a future GDF. We also work with the NDA in support of waste management strategy development.

RWM’s vision is a safer future by managing radioactive waste effectively, to protect people and the environment with our mission to deliver geological disposal and provide radioactive waste management solutions.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • support the launch of the geological disposal siting process in line with government policy
  • implement government policy on geological disposal of Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
  • deliver a robust technical programme to drive our design and safety assessment work
  • develop Radioactive Waste Management Limited into a competent delivery organization
  • work pro-actively with waste producers, planning for and delivering disposability assessments for their range of wastes
  • develop and implement joint Integrated Radioactive Waste Programme with LLWR

Direct Rail Services Limited

DRS Limited was established in 1995 to provide a rail service for the transportation of nuclear material. DRS operates in non-nuclear business where it enhances our ability to deliver the core mission, through developing a critical mass that ensures we attract and retain people of the highest calibre and provide an environment that fosters innovation and operational excellence. DRS has developed and maintained an industry leading reputation for providing safe, secure, reliable and cost effective services within both the nuclear and non-nuclear related markets.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • delivery of the rail transport element in support of the completion of MOP
  • support national nuclear material rail movements for Harwell, Winfrith and DSRL
  • support AGR fuel movements by rail for EDF from stations to Sellafield
  • support the discharge of NDA obligations with respect to MOD Nuclear rail transportation
  • provide value for money to the tax payer through the execution of identified non-nuclear work that compliments the skills and capabilities required to support the core nuclear mission
  • provide rail authority expertise to the NDA and consider areas of synergy between DRS and INS in support of the NDA’s strategic transport capability review
  • programme manage the manufacture of new rail wagons to support Magnox and EDF
  • operate and maintain a fleet of locomotives to support NDA operations
  • attract and retain the necessary skills, capability and diversity of talent to deliver our rail logistics business in a safe, secure and reliable manner

International Nuclear Services Limited

INS Limited manages a large portfolio of UK and international contracts for nuclear fuel recycling and transport services on behalf of the NDA. INS operates a subsidiary company, Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), the world’s leading marine transporter of specialist nuclear materials.

Over the next 3 years, INS will continue its focus on the return of vitrified wastes to their country of origin. In addition INS will continue to provide transport services to existing international customers whilst also developing opportunities for new commercial business both internationally and in support of the UK decommissioning programme.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • continue the management of contracts with international customers for spent fuel business.
  • manage uranium and plutonium services for international spent fuel business.
  • transport nuclear materials including Spent Fuel, Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel, vitrified High Level Waste (HLW) and conditioned Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) internationally and shipments of materials under the US Government’s
  • Material Management and Minimisation (M3) initiative
  • support the NDA in the development and implementation of transport solutions to enable the UK decommissioning programme
  • continue, where appropriate, to seek opportunities for new business within shipping, transport package and system design for radioactive materials, and acting as an agent for the overseas sale of UK Intellectual Property in relation to spent fuel and waste management, nuclear decommissioning and transport

NDA Archives Limited

NDA Archives Ltd operates as a separate delivery organisation for the provision of archive and records management services primarily to the NDA estate. We have established a number of Service and End User Agreements and are overseeing the management of a Commercial Partner (Restore Scan Limited) who is operating a purpose-built archive facility in Wick; Nucleus, the Nuclear and Caithness Archive.

Currently, very few of the NDA’s information assets are managed to the standards required of us as a public authority. The NDA owns and is accountable for the records from across the estate and, accordingly, has developed a programme to manage them effectively from creation to destruction. The principal role of Nucleus is to consolidate and appropriately store these records ensuring that they remain secure, that their integrity stays intact (many of them will be required for 300+ years) and that they can be accessed in line with legislation and the relevant business requirements.

The facility became operational (and open to the public) on 14 February 2017 with the accessioning of both the entire Dounreay photographic collection and the Caithness Archive, the latter fulfilling a socio-economic commitment to the Dounreay community. Since then, other significant collections have also been relocated and it is expected that this aspect of the programme will continue for at least another 4 to 5 years.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • Nucleus working in accordance with the National Archive’s Accreditation Standards (regulatory best practice)
  • complete relocation of the ‘known’ legacy archives, to include all ex-UKAEA records
  • complete relocation of all NDA-owned and archived records above OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE
  • continuing to work with interested third parties to potentially provide services to others outside the NDA estate.
  • optimise usage of the Nucleus facility with respect to Business Continuity and Resilience Planning requirements of the NDA and its estate

NDA Properties Limited

NDA Properties Limited primarily acts as a property management for assets outside the nuclear licence site boundaries, in accordance with the NDA’s Land and Property Management Strategy. Over the next three years, NDA Properties Ltd will continue to optimise the use of assets for the benefit of the NDA, including undertaking selected developments, whilst disposing those surplus to requirements.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • effective and proactive management of the property portfolio
  • development of Off Site Command Facility at Moresby for Sellafield Ltd by 2019
  • development of offices at Warrington to replace Hinton House by 2021
  • disposal of surplus assets to raise capital receipts of circa £500,000 per annum

Rutherford Indemnity Limited

Rutherford Indemnity Limited is registered in Guernsey and is regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. The Company provides insurance cover for the NDA and its estate. Over the next three years, Rutherford will continue to focus on the provision of insurance cover, at competitive rates, to support the NDA programme, with particular focus on nuclear liability cover and provision of support for changes arising from expected revisions to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965.

Key Activities over the next 3 years:

  • provide optimal insurance coverage to the NDA to support its estate-wide insurance programme and exploit opportunities to reduce overall cost of insurable risk
  • explore all avenues to develop potential innovative solutions to the increased financial security or insurance requirements resulting from the Nuclear Installations (Liability For Damage) Order 2016 and to respond to emerging demands for new or additional policy cover
  • continue to deliver the target return on the investment portfolio, protecting Rutherford’s ability to offer insurance on a cost effective basis, maintaining liquidity in order to be able to respond promptly to major loss
  • continue to explore ways to use a prudent proportion of Rutherford’s investment portfolio to support infrastructure investment in the NDA estate
  • implement new ways of working following changes in the group broking arrangements designed to improve efficiency and reduce costs
  • re-compete contract for management of Rutherford Indemnity Limited (captive management contract)
  1. Numbers may not cast due to rounding. Final Annual Site Funding Limits issued in March 2018 may be adjusted to reflect efficiency, performance and portfolio pressures. The NDA reserves the right to reallocate funding to meet prioritised programme needs.