The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a mission to decommission and remediate the UK’s nuclear sites safely, securely and cost effectively, with care for its people, communities and the environment.
The NDA’s mission encompasses 17 sites, including facilities that were associated with the generation of electricity from nuclear power, the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and redundant experimental facilities associated with the UK’s early civil and military nuclear programmes. This legacy is diverse and complex. Many facilities are unique, producing radioactive waste and spent fuel with no precedent for their management. The NDA is also responsible for implementing both the UK nuclear industry’s Solid Low Level Waste Strategy and the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive wastes.
The baseline plans to undertake this work stretch out over a century into the future. The NDA needs to communicate those plans, along with the progress to date, with a very wide range of stakeholders including policy makers, the technical community and the general public.