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UK Cleanup Market Overview
A Strategic approach to Cleanup
& Hazard Reduction
Nov 2010
Marcus Mackay mercury stone
marcus@mercurystone.co.uk
Purpose
• Provide an overview of the UK Civil Nuclear Estate
• Explore the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
strategy which is driving UK cleanup and the market
opportunity
• Describe the UK site restoration context & strategy
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UK Cleanup Overview
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The Nuclear Decommissioning
Authority was established in 2005 with
a remit to clean up the civil public
sector nuclear legacy
• Sites and facilities built from 1940s
onwards
• Annual funding of ~£2.8Bn ($4+Bn)
• Head Office based in North West
England
• Total staffing circa 18,500 plus
contractors
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The UK legacy - Sellafield
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The UK legacy – Magnox Reactors
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The UK legacy - Research Facilities
Dounreay
Harwell
Dounreay
Winfrith
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The NDA mission covers a diverse range
of complex activities as well as cleanup
Demolition of towers at Chapelcross Chapelcross begins Trawsfynydd ILW store opens
Reactor 3 defuelling
New Sellafield product store
under construction
Dounreay Puma Cell cleared out and cleaned up
VRR back overseas
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Progress since 2005
• First UK-wide strategy 2006, five yearly review underway
• Understanding the nature of the legacy, the interactions and
the scale of the Nuclear Liability Estimate (circa £70Bn)
• Changed the architecture of the industry, moving 18,000
workforce under private sector management, replacing two
monoliths with six Site Licensed Companies (SLCs)
• Successfully competed and sold sites, placing them under
private sector management
• Real focus on high hazards & programme delivery
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The NDA's Strategic Approach is
focussing effort on priority activities
NDA activities are grouped under six strategic themes that translate into key
programmes of work that must be delivered in the short to medium term.
Reduce Ensure fuel Implement Deal with Maximise
hazards and from 1st and storage and plutonium and commercial
liability across 2nd generation disposal for uranium in a value from
our estate (eg is reprocessed LLW, ILW and safe and our assets
legacy ponds and managed HLW inc. secure way
& silos) in a safe and Geological
secure way Disposal
Facility (GDF)
SITE SPENT WASTE NUCLEAR BUSINESS
RESTORATION FUELS MANAGEMENT MATERIALS OPTIMISATION
CRITICAL ENABLERS
Build an effective industry (supply chain, skills, R&D, competition, socio-economic)
The NDA Strategy was first published in 2006. Consultation on Strategy 2 started in Sept 2010,
for further information: http://www.nda.gov.uk/strategy/
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Current UK expenditure breakdown
Estate wide expenditure broken down by
strategic theme. This is indicative and based
on previous years.
53% of spend is on Sellafield
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The NDA Business Plan 2010-13…
a top level guide to priorities for delivery
• Defines the NDA Strategic Objectives
• Provides an overview of Costs & Funding
• Maps Activities against Strategic Themes
eg. Site Restoration - £863m in 2010/11
Spent Fuels - £439m in 2010/11 etc…
• Activities in some cases specific…
eg. “Complete the asbestos stripping from 8 of 16
heat exchangers at Chapelcross”
… in some cases general…
eg. “Continue Preparation of retrieval of legacy waste”
• Further Detail are held in
- Site Life Time Plans,
- 3 year detailed Operating Plans
- Procurement Plans
For more information download the NDA Business Plan 2010-13
www.nda.gov.uk/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=38406
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Site Restoration - Context
Restoration of the UK’s nuclear legacy presents a major and time
critical challenge; in 2009/10 the discounted future cost estimate
amounts to £40.8 billion
– Legacy plants dating from late 1940’s and 1950’s
– Large quantities of old corroding radioactive waste
– Degrading infrastructure
– Contaminated ground and / or groundwater at every NDA site
as a result of various land uses (not all nuclear)
– Volume of ground estimated to be radioactively contaminated
exceeds (~x4) current UK low level waste disposal capacity
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Site Restoration - Context
• Site Restoration covers three key activities required to deliver a
site or facility through to a planned Site End State
– Decommissioning and Clean-Up
Cleaning out, dismantling and demolishing redundant facilities (from
cessation of operations to demolition)
– Land Quality Management
Managing contaminated ground and groundwater
– Site End States
Providing credible objectives for the restoration of each site; defining
the physical condition of a site when NDA has completed its mission
• Takes account of Non NDA Liabilities located on NDA sites
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Site Restoration - Context
Site End States
Operations Decommissioning and Clean-up
Land & Property
Management
Land Quality Management Dedesignate
Divest
Interim States Next societal use
(Site Restoration is the driving strategy that other strategies (inc. Integrated Waste Management) support)
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Site Restoration
Site Restoration Objective:
To restore NDA designated sites and
release them for other uses
• Focus on reducing risks to people and the •
environment, while restoring each site as soon as
reasonably practicable to a condition suitable for its
next planned use
• Site restoration is considered on a case-specific
basis, taking account of a range of relevant factors
• Intolerable risks – the NDA will take urgent
continuous action to reduce them to at least a
tolerable level
• Less significant risks – the NDA will take greater
account of other factors
• Act proportionately to ensure net level of risk does
not increase in the long-term
• Consider full lifecycle impacts on people &
environment to avoid compromising future
generations – ie. Adopt sustainable solutions
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Key Messages
• The UK nuclear landscape has transformed over the last 5 years, with
Nuclear New Build providing new challenges & end-state possibilities
• Joined up Strategy and Business Plans are key to:
- Quantifying the liability
- Demonstrating Credibility & Securing Funding
- Enabling effective prioritisation
• The focus on High Hazards requires flexible approach, including
deferred decommissioning and cleanup of lower risk facilities
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Close any questions
Marcus Mackay
marcus@mercurystone.co.uk
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