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UK Cleanup Market Overview A Strategic approach to Cleanup & Hazard Reduction Nov 2010 Marcus Mackay [email protected] mercury stone
UK Cleanup Market Overview A Strategic approach to Cleanup & Hazard Reduction
Nov 2010
Marcus Mackay [email protected]
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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 FacilitiesDounreay
Dounreay
Harwell
Winfrith
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The NDA mission covers a diverse range of complex activities as well as cleanup
Trawsfynydd ILW store opensDemolition of towers at Chapelcross
New Sellafield product store under construction
VRR back overseas
Chapelcross begins Reactor 3 defuelling
Dounreay Puma Cell cleared out and cleaned up
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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 isfocussing effort on priority activities
Build an effective industry (supply chain, skills, R&D, competition, socio-economic)
SITE RESTORATION
SPENT FUELS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
NUCLEAR MATERIALS
BUSINESS OPTIMISATION
Reduce hazards and liability across our estate (eg legacy ponds & silos)
Ensure fuel from 1st and 2nd generation is reprocessed and managed in a safe and secure way
Implement storage and disposal for LLW, ILW and HLW inc. GeologicalDisposalFacility (GDF)
Deal with plutonium and uranium in a safe and secure way
Maximise commercial value from our assets
CRITICAL ENABLERS
NDA activities are grouped under six strategic themes that translate into keyprogrammes of work that must be delivered in the short to medium term.
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 bystrategic theme. This is indicative and basedon 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-UpCleaning out, dismantling and demolishing redundant facilities (from cessation of operations to demolition)
– Land Quality ManagementManaging contaminated ground and groundwater
– Site End StatesProviding 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
Land Quality Management
Decommissioning and Clean-upOperations
Dedesignate
Divest
Next societal use
Sit
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nd
Sta
tes
Land & Property Management
Interim States
(Site Restoration is the driving strategy that other strategies (inc. Integrated Waste Management) support)
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Site Restoration
• 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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Site Restoration Objective: To restore NDA designated sites and
release them for other uses
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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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