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Explaining the Context of Sellafield's Operations Issue 2 May 2017 Context Plan (2017-2026) Explaining the context of Sellafield’s operations Issue 2 May 2017 Foreword Given that Sellafield’s nuclear activities have been a major element in We well understand the challenges of the West Cumbria landscape and community for over sixty years it may planning for the future development of seem strange to document at this point a Context Plan for the site’s the Sellafield site and that this challenge activites. There are however several reasons for doing so. From an external is truly unique. This context plan perspective there is a growing need to explain the underlying drivers provides a very useful framework to behind the still very significant construction programme at Sellafield, and to understand the discussion needed to recognise that in most cases each element of that programme is subject support the development of the site and to a planning consent decision by either Copeland Borough Council or the Sellafield mission. Cumbria County Council. Internally Sellafield faces probably its biggest change to date with the completion of the two reprocessing missions over the next four years. This will have far reaching implications, not just for the workforce but also for the construction programme. There are other drivers, and these are outlined in this document. This first Conext Plan for Sellafield seeks to address the above, and in The context plan usefully sets out the particular to assist the local Planning Authorities in their assessments and priorities and challenges for Sellafield decisions for the construction programme at Sellafield. The Context Plan will in respect of land use and transport be updated on an event driven basis, for those events that have a material effect on the site’s operating or external context. Pending this, feedback issues. Together with the development from Planning Authorities on their use of the Context Plan will be welcomed. of a masterplan and transport strategy it will inform planning decisions and help to ensure sustainable development Rebecca Weston of the site. Technical Director, Sellafield Ltd Contents 02 Foreword 12 Sellafield today 03 Purpose 16 Sellafield’s role 04 Introduction 18 Community impact 06 Key considerations 20 Sellafield 2017-2026 08 Historical development 26 Conclusion 10 Nuclear life cycle 27 References / Glossary 02 Sellafield FOREWARD / FOREWARD PURPOSE INTRODUCTION Purpose CONSIDERATIONS This context plan has been created to help the planning authorities (Cumbria KEY County Council and Copeland Borough Council) in their assessment of our future site development and associated strategies, in relation to determining planning applications and other relevant supporting information. DEVELOPEMENT HISTORICAL HISTORICAL Government Policy International customer Nuclear Decommissioning commitments Authority Strategy Context Plan LIFE CYCLE NUCLEAR Regulatory requirements Sellafield Ltd Strategy Master planning Sellafield baseline plan SELLAFIELD TODAY Value streams Project Project Project Project Project The local SELLAFIELD’S authorities Planning application Planning application consider planning ROLE applications in line with a national and local planning Local authority decision framework. COMMUNITY IMPACT The document shows the context within which government and supports the delivery of the strategy set development proposals form part of a logical and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as owners integrated overall land use for the Sellafield site. This is of the site. A natural evolution of the context plan is consistent with the National Planning Policy Framework more detailed master planning for the site which, in turn, and National Planning Policy Guidance and the relevant flows down through to the site requirements of individual SELLAFIELD local authority planning policies, including the Cumbria projects. 2017-2026 Minerals and Waste Local Plan and the Copeland Local Plan 2013-2028. The context plan covers the period 2017-2026, will be updated on an event driven basis to reflect any major As the diagram above illustrates, the work to be done change in policy, strategy or the local environment, or at Sellafield is driven by nuclear policy set by the UK every three years, whichever is sooner. REFERENCES / CONCLUSION / GLOSSARY Sellafield 03 DOUNREAY Nuclear Decommissioning Introduction Authority owned sites In 2005, the UK government appointed the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to take responsibility for developing nuclear decommissioning plans and implementing them through an estate-wide strategy. SELLAFIELD HUNTERSTON A The estate is made up of 17 nuclear sites, including Sellafield, which are all owned by SELLAFIELD the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Within this estate, Sellafield is the key LLW REPOSITORY CHAPELCROSS site as it is home to the most challenging legacy facilities. SPRINGFIELDS As the strategic authority, the Nuclear WYLFA Decommissioning Authority ensures that CAPENHURST government policies are reflected in their strategy and implemented by the site TRAWSFYNYDD licence companies that operate the sites. SIZEWELL A Sellafield Ltd is the site licence company BERKELEY responsible for the safe operation of the BRADWELL Sellafield site. OLDBURY HARWELL HINKLEY POINT A DUNGENESS A WINFRITH Roles and responsibilities at Sellafield NUCLEAR DECOMMISIONING AUTHORITY SELLAFIELD LTD – Legal owner of Sellafield Ltd and the Sellafield Site – Holds the Nuclear Site Licence for the Sellafield site – Allocates funding to Sellafield and other civil nuclear sites – Responsible for the safe and secure operation of the Sellafield in their estate site – Appoints the Chair of Sellafield Ltd – Directly accountable for the people, assets and liabilities under its control – Nominates NDA non-executive directors to the board of Sellafield Ltd – Creates and delivers the baseline plan for Sellafield – Sets governance and financial control frameworks – Agrees performance targets and measures performance against Sellafield Ltd’s operating plan 04 Sellafield FOREWARD / FOREWARD PURPOSE INTRODUCTION Introduction CONSIDERATIONS KEY REGULATORS ENVIRONMENT AGENCY PLANNING AUTHORITIES OFFICE FOR NUCLEAR An executive non-departmental The statutory body or bodies public body responsible for the responsible for producing local REGULATION protection and improvement of the land use policies, allocations and The Office for Nuclear Regulation’s environment. guidance that are used in deciding DEVELOPEMENT HISTORICAL HISTORICAL mission is to provide efficient and planning applications and therefore effective regulation of the nuclear REGULATING SELLAFIELD guide future development on the industry, holding it to account on Sellafield site. behalf of the public. The Office for Sellafield site ranks as one The local planning authorities are: Nuclear Regulation Transport’s of Europe’s largest industrial complexes, managing more contribution to achieving this mission • Cumbria County Council for radioactive waste in one place than is to regulate safety and security all waste related matters/ any other nuclear facility in the world. during the transport of radioactive development It is also home to some of the most LIFE CYCLE material by road and rail in the UK. NUCLEAR hazardous legacy nuclear facilities in • Copeland Borough Council for all the country, our legacy ponds and other non-waste related matters. silos. For more on these challenges, see page 11. SELLAFIELD FUNDING • to make demonstrable progress in the reduction of risks and TODAY hazards at Sellafield, and in the completion of our commercial The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is an executive, non- reprocessing operations departmental public body and as such its annual spending limits are set by parliament, combining government funding with • to deliver a return on the investment that stakeholders make in income from its commercial activities. This income will reduce the Sellafield site. with the completion of reprocessing operations at Sellafield. In delivering these priorities we have a duty to minimise our SELLAFIELD’S We recognise that there are always competing demands on impact on the environment, to be a good neighbour to the public finances. This means we have to prioritise work across the communities in which we operate and to maximise the social ROLE site, balancing risk and hazard reduction, value for money and impact of the Sellafield mission. making progress on a broad front. The site is approaching a transition point in its mission as The Public Accounts Committee which is responsible for commercial reprocessing comes to an end and resources are scrutinising the value for money of public spending and for deployed to deliver four value streams: holding the government and its civil servants to account for • Waste retrievals the delivery of public services, has looked at the money spent COMMUNITY at Sellafield on two occasions. As a subsidiary of the Nuclear • Remediation IMPACT Decommissioning Authority and a publicly funded organisation, • Spent fuel management we can expect this level of scrutiny to continue. • Special nuclear material management We currently predict that this work at Sellafield will take more than SITE OPERATIONS AND PRIORITIES a century to complete. This is as a result of prioritising risk and Sellafield poses levels of complexity and uncertainty that are hazard reduction and the resources and technology available to complete the work. unique in the global nuclear sector. SELLAFIELD 2017-2026 Throughout its seventy year history, it has played a key role in the
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