1. NDA Strategy for Site Restoration
NuLeaf Seminar
22 June 2011
Dr Anna Clark
Head of Site Restoration

2. Scope of Site Restoration

3. IAEA decommissioning strategies
Immediate dismantling
Deferred dismantling
Entombment

4. NDA Strategy: Strategic questions

5. NDA Strategy: What level of restoration do we aim for?
Rely on institutional controls to manage risks
Clean up every trace of industrial use
WASTE ARISING
LEVEL OF INTERVENTION
RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE
COST
Restore site to a condition suitable for its next planned use
To delicense, reduce radioactive contamination to a level suitable for any foreseeable future use

6. NDA Strategy: What level of restoration do we aim for?
Site End State determined by a case-specific assessment
Site End State definitions remain flexible until planning commences for final stages of restoration
Review Site End States if and when necessary as restoration progresses

7. NDA Strategy: What level of restoration do we aim for?
Define Interim States
milestone or decision point in site restoration programme, typically marked by a stepped reduction in risk or hazard

8. NDA Strategy: How do we restore our sites?
Strategic options for decommissioning and land quality management:
In-situ (manage or dispose in original location)
Ex-situ (remove prior to management or disposal)
On-site disposal facilities

9. NDA Strategy: When do we restore our sites?
Intolerable risk - continuous action until risk at least tolerable
Ensure tolerable risks do not become intolerable
Balance range of relevant factors

10. NDA Strategy: When do we restore our sites?
Undertake restoration as soon as reasonably practicable
Preference for continuous decommissioning
Commence POCO on cessation of operations
Act proportionately to ensure net level of risk does not increase in the long-term
Balance range of relevant factors

11. Continuing strategy development
We will:
discuss implications of delicensing with Government and regulators
look at role of other forms of institutional control in managing residual contamination
further underpin strategic options
in-situ or ex-situ
continuous or deferred
develop set of relevant factors for consideration during decision-making
capture enduring prioritisation process
define Interim States
explore opportunities for early re-use of a site, or part of a site

12. Role of Local Authorities
Planning Regime – form of institutional control for residual contamination
Input to Site Restoration Theme Overview Group
Local authority development plans
Influence Interim States
NDA project to articulate Interim States implicit in current lifetime plans
Local Authorities to be engaged on how Interim States might be presented

13. NDA Strategy for Integrated Waste Management
NuLeaf Seminar
22 June 2011
Dr James McKinney
Head of Integrated Waste Management

14. Integrated Waste Management (Site Restoration etc)
IWM THEME – 3 Topics
NDA STRATEGY
Integrated Waste Management
Other themes
(Site Restoration etc)
THEME
Higher Activity Wastes
Lower Activity Wastes
Non-Radioactive & Hazardous Wastes
TOPIC
Liquid & Gaseous Discharges
Solid LLW Management

15. Waste in the NDA Estate - What is it?
LLW
Long-lived ILW
Vitrified HLW

16. Past / Current practices – Baseline Plans
GDF
HAW
Package
(grout)
Store
LLW
Package
(grout)
LLWR
Liquid and
Gaseous Waste
Discharges
Non-Radioactive and
Hazardous Waste
Landfill

17. Desired Practices – Drivers for change
Policy
Waste hierarchy
Consideration of whole lifecycle
Improvement notices
Stakeholder involvement
Costs and opportunities
Proximity principle…
Supply chain and open market
Learning from experience!

18. Desired Practices – Drivers for change
NDA’s Unique Role:
MRWS
Deliver and implement a UK LLW Strategy for the nuclear industry
Scottish HAW Policy - The policy is for the long-term management of higher radioactivity wastes in near-surface facilities
Delivery partner for UK Strategy for Radioactive Discharges
Working with others
(Role has developed subsequent to the Energy Act)

19. Integrated waste management – key messages
Objective: 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 provide value for money
Address the whole waste lifecycle move away from a focus on disposal
Risk reduction as a priority waste in ageing storage facilities
Centralised and multi-site approaches considered where advantageous
Application of waste hierarchy value for money and affordability

20. Integrated waste management – key messages
Diverse solutions
Waste management should be integrated traditional classification not starting point
Seek opportunities to do things better and deliver them – e.g. thermal treatment
Opportunities at classification boundaries ex. decay storage of ILW; alternative disposal options (graphite)

21. Outline

22. Desired Practices – SII approach
Past Approach
Strategy II Approach
Each site looks after its own waste, processing & storage
Limited range of options “if in doubt grout”
Straight jacket of waste category boundaries
Consolidation and co-location as appropriate
Integrated waste processing solutions ‘take the plant to the waste” or “take the waste to the plant”
Waste specific approach
What is it?
Best treatment and disposal?
Flexibility – Decay storage, VLLW disposal, risk based approach

23. Bill Hamilton – Head of Stakeholder Communications

24. Socio-economic Progress – Priority Areas
West Cumbria
Port of Workington
West Cumbria Transport Study
West Cumbria Blueprint and Spatial Strategy
Caithness and North Sutherland
Caithness Chamber of Commerce
Scrabster Harbour
Anglesey and Meirionnydd
Energy Island Projects
Gretna-Lockerbie-Annan corridor
Chapelcross Transition Support Project

25. Socio-economic Progress – Other areas
Hinkley Point
Bridgewater College
Oldbury/Berkeley
Energy Gloucester

26. New delivery model
NDA will retain a central budget for transformational projects
SLC contractors will be held to account for delivery of soc-ec support
Applications will increasingly be submitted to SLC’s
SLC’s to assess and submit relevant ones to NDA
Socio-economic Panel and Committee have been dissolved
Applications approved by Jon Phillips (up to 500k) or Tony Fountain and Government (500k plus)

27. Cont…. Dounreay SLC allocation increases
Magnox Ltd undertaking a socio-economic impact assessment of its work programme
Socio-economic development Plan due late September

28. UK National Engagement Plan 2011/12
Plan was published in May 2011
Plan will show stakeholders what engagement opportunities there are over the next year
The plan is split into sections reflecting the strategic themes used in our Strategy
Plan will be continuously updated
A national event is planned for November 2011
We welcome input and feedback at anytime

29. Example