Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Draft Business Plan 2024 To 2027 For Consultation

5th December 2023

The NDA Draft Business Plan sets out key activities and expected progress for all 17 of the NDA's nuclear sites over the next 3 years. We want to hear from anyone who has a comment on any aspect of this document.

This consultation closes at 2:30pm on 29 January 2024.

Consultation description
The NDA is responsible for one of the important environmental programmes in the world, decommissioning the UK's earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and sustainably, to leave a long-lasting positive legacy for future generations.

The Draft Business Plan reflects the NDA's most recent Strategy, published in 2021, and sets out key activities and the progress expected across all its sites during the next 3 years, in line with funding allocated by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Publication follows another year of progress across the NDA group, including significant steps to reduce hazards at Sellafield, where waste is being retrieved from all four legacy ponds and silos for the first time.

A restructure was also completed to create a simpler, stronger NDA group, taking opportunities to get the best value from working more closely together. The final planned step saw Dounreay join Magnox this year, becoming known collectively as Nuclear Restoration Services.

The Draft Business Plan sets out an ambitious programme for the next 3 years, with the focus remaining on safe delivery of the mission, the creation of great places to work and being trusted to do more. The mission will be progressed on a number of fronts, reducing hazards and aiming to get further benefits from working as a group. Significant projects will also be taken forward, including the work to identify a site that could host a Geological Disposal Facility.

The period covered by the Business Plan will also see change as the NDA is trusted to do more, including preparations for the first Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor site to transfer to the NDA group from EDF Energy for decommissioning.

Consultation guidelines
The consultation will run for eight weeks, from 4 December 2023 to 29 January 2024 in accordance with the criteria set out in the Cabinet Office's Consultation principles guidelines. We want to hear from anyone who has a comment on any aspect of this document. In your response, please tell us whether you're replying as an individual or representing the views of an organisation. If you're acting on behalf of an organisation, please tell us its name and, if applicable, how you gathered the views of its members.

When looking at the responses, we'll give greater consideration to those that are based on evidence, rather than personal expressions of support or opposition.

You can respond by letter or email using the contact details below. Please address all responses to NDA Business Planning, Business Plan Consultation.

Confidentiality and data protection
Any information we receive in response to this consultation, including personal data, may be subject to publication or disclosure in accordance with UK information access legislation (the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004), unless suitable exemptions/exceptions apply. If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential please let us know, but be aware that we cannot guarantee confidentiality in all circumstances. For example, an automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system won't necessarily be binding on the NDA. Please refer to Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) guidance on information provided in confidence for more detail.

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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Draft Business Plan 2024 to 2027 for consultation
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