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Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority(NDA)
Cleaning up the nuclear legacy is a long term process.
It is a programme which will cost many billions of
pounds over a period of many decades. Ensuring that
the necessary skills and resources are in place and
that the right jobs get done at the right time to get
the best value for the taxpayer is a major
undertaking. The Government has decided that this
will be best achieved by the establishment of a new
public body, the NDA. The NDA will be a national
body, established by primary legislation, with
responsibility for legacy facilities in the UK. It
will have the dedicated skills and capability to
oversee the strategic management and direction of
legacy clean up. The NDA will also be a champion of
public information. This page provides a high-level
introduction to the NDA.
The role of the Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
The NDA will provide the required overall management
and direction for legacy clean up. It will develop a
coherent clean up strategy while making the best use
of available skills and resources. To achieve this it
will work in partnership with licensees, who will be
responsible for doing the work, and with the nuclear
regulators.
It will be in a position to take decisions that
balance short, medium and long term considerations.
These will reflect the fact that the clean up
programme has to be sustained over a period of 100
years or more.
The NDA's guiding
principles
The NDA will have four guiding principles:
- Focus on getting the job done to high safety,
security and environmental standards.
- Best value for money consistent with those
standards
- Openness and transparency
- Development of competitive markets for clean
up contracts, to drive innovation and ensure
the best possible use of available skills.
NDA's relationship
with BNFL and UKAEA
The NDA is not intended to carry out clean up work
itself. Instead, it will place contracts with site
licensees, currently BNFL and UKAEA, who will be
responsible for the clean up programme at each site.
Site licensees will need to meet relevant regulatory
requirements and will be incentivised through
contracts to drive forward the clean up work
effectively and efficiently. The separation of
strategy and planning from implementation will enable
the NDA to focus on the strategic management of the
clean up programme. This arrangement should combine
the best of what the public and private sectors have
to offer.
NDA offices
The NDA will want to maintain a presence close to
many of the legacy sites, in order to manage
contracts with licensees and relationships with local
stakeholders. It will also require corporate
headquarters. The Government announced on 11 December
that West Cumbria will be the location for these
headquarters.
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