Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom formed by the Energy Act 2004. It came into existence on 1 April 2005. Its purpose is to oversee and manage the decommissioning and clean-up of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy. The NDA took ownership of the sites involved, but the operational work itself is carried out by contractors.
The sites involved are:
- BNFL's British Nuclear Group subsidiary:
- * Sellafield nuclear chemical facility
- * Capenhurst uranium enrichment plant
- * Drigg low level waste repository
- BNFL's Westinghouse Electric Company subsidiary:
- * Springfields nuclear fuel production facility
- The 11 Magnox nuclear power stations
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) nuclear research sites:
- * Culham Joint European Torus
- * Dounreay
- * Harwell
- * Windscale
- * Winfrith
On its creation, the NDA also took over ownership of Direct Rail Services, the rail freight operating company set up by BNFL in 1995 to transport nuclear materials.
See also
- Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
- Energy policy of the United Kingdom
- Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom
External links
- [NDA website]
- [Nuclear clean-up cost up to £56bn], BBC, 11 August 2005
- ["The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority"], Steve Thomas (2004), Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich
- [UK nuclear decommissioning efforts now answerable to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority], Bellona Foundation, 4 April 2005
- [UK nuclear industry is allegedly "cheating the market"], Bellona Foundation, 18 January 2005
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