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Draft Business Plan 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023 Cleaning up the UK’s earliest nuclear sites, caring for people and the environment NDA Draft Business Plan 2020 to 2023 1 Some images supplied courtesy of businesses (sites) and NDA specialist subsidiaries. Every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of material or images produced or used by NDA. However, NDA cannot guarantee that the images shown will always be current, accurate or complete and does not warrant or endorse the accuracy or completeness of the images. © Nuclear Decommissioning Authority copyright 2019 2 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Draft Business Plan Financial year beginning April 2020 to financial year ending March 2023 Published for consultation on 23 December 2019 NDA Draft Business Plan 2020 to 2023 3 Introduction to the consultation Our consultation on this draft Business Plan starts on 23 December 2019 and closes on 14 February 2020. This consultation If you’ve got a question or concern Additional copies We want to hear from anyone If you’ve got a question relating This draft business plan is who has a comment on any to this consultation, or concern available at www.gov.uk/nda. aspect of this document. In your about how it’s being carried response, please tell us whether out please let us know, using You may make copies of this you’re replying as an individual the contact details already document without permission. or representing the views of an stated. Please mark your If you need us to send you organisation. If you’re acting on correspondence with ‘business a printed copy, please email behalf of an organisation, please plan consultation’. [email protected] tell us its name and, if applicable, Confidentiality and data protection how you gathered the views of its A copy of the consultation members. 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Subject to approval by the UK all responses to NDA Business and Scottish Governments, we’ll Planning, Business Plan It would be helpful if you could publish the final version of our Consultation. explain why you think the Business Plan before the end of information you’re supplying is March 2020. By Letter: confidential, so we can consider NDA Business Planning, this if we receive a request to Business Plan Consultation, disclose the information. We can’t Nuclear Decommissioning assure you that confidentiality can Authority, Herdus House, be maintained in all circumstances. Westlakes Science and An automatic confidentiality Technology Park, Moor Row, disclaimer generated by your IT Cumbria, CA24 3HU system won’t necessarily be binding on the NDA. Fax: 01925 802003 We’ll process your personal data Email: in accordance with the Data [email protected] Protection Act and, in the majority of circumstances, that will mean that it will not be disclosed to third parties. 4 Contents A word from our Chief Executive 8 The NDA 11 Our sites 12 The NDA group 14 Our vision 16 Our strategic themes 18 Our strategic outcomes 21 Critical enablers 26 2020-2023 Highlights 28 Our funding 30 NDA group businesses key activities 35 NDA corporate centre 36 Sellafield Limited 38 Magnox Limited 41 Dounreay Site Restoration Limited 55 LLW Repository Limited 57 International Nuclear Services Limited 59 Radioactive Waste Management Limited 60 Direct Rail Services Limited 61 NDA Archives Limited 62 NDA Properties Limited 62 Rutherford Indemnity Limited 63 Springfields Fuels Limited 64 Urenco Nuclear Stewardship Limited 64 References 65 Useful links and documents 65 Glossary 66 NDA Draft Business Plan 2020 to 2023 5 Preface We’re charged with the mission to clean up the UK’s earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and cost-effectively. Doing this with care for our people, communities and the environment is at the heart of our work. We’re committed to overcoming the challenges of nuclear clean-up and decommissioning, leaving our 17 sites safe and ready for their next use. Engaging openly and our important clean-up and As well as describing the key transparently on our work is decommissioning work and activities over the next 3 years, important to us. We create operate our facilities safely and our plan also sets out our and consult on a wide range of securely over the next 3 years. expected income and expenditure publications every year, including It also highlights some of the for the next financial year. our annual Business Plan. This other essential work to enable us plan sets out the activities that to carry out our mission-critical need to take place to advance activities. 6 NDA Draft Business Plan 2020 to 2023 7 A message from our Chief Executive David Peattie In my statement last year I talked wealth of experience and about the momentum building in knowledge to our group. the NDA after a challenging period. That momentum continues and On the work to this year has been one of notable progress in our improvement and success across mission, Magnox our nuclear sites and businesses. removed the last reactor fuel from Strategically, we’ve strengthened Wylfa in 2019, the capability of the NDA, improved meaning all 25 of the way the NDA group is organised, the first-generation and made solid progress in our nuclear reactors on determination to develop the NDA our Magnox sites group as a great place to work for are now fuel free. everyone. Significantly, we’ve seen At the same time, notable achievements in our work we also achieved to clean up and decommission our defueling at the UK’s sites. first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall at Sellafield. We’ve established a firm foundation on which to build success in the longer term. The next few years will see us seeking to reap the benefits of the organisational and cultural improvements and the renewed stability in the NDA group. 2019/20 overview We entered the year introducing One NDA across the NDA group. One NDA is about working together more effectively and efficiently as a group, capitalising on its wealth of experience and talent, harnessing the opportunities that come from our scale and breadth. Embedding One NDA is strategically important and we’ve continued to make solid progress in our plans. In September 2019, we successfully transitioned the Magnox business into an NDA subsidiary, led by Chair Lawrie Haynes and CEO Gwen Parry-Jones OBE. Both bring a 8 A message from our Chief Executive “We’ve strengthened the capability of the NDA, improved the way the NDA group is organised, and David Peattie made solid progress in our determination to develop the NDA group as a great place to work for everyone.” An important milestone was reached Strategy will continue to be important. is clear, to create great places to at Dounreay when half the remaining So too will the work by Radioactive work for everyone, and that means radioactive fuel elements were Waste Management to identify a encouraging inclusion and diversity at removed from the 60-year-old suitable site and willing community every level. Dounreay Fast Reactor. for a geological disposal facility, internationally recognised as the At our Low Level Waste Repository, safest long-term storage solution for Our stakeholders nuclear waste. the workforce celebrated diverting Building and maintaining the trust of 11,000 containers from disposal at the our stakeholders remains an enduring site, eliminating the need for a second In 2021 we will be publishing the priority. I’m grateful for the support repository and saving up to £2 billion next iteration of our strategy, setting of our stakeholders, who continue to for the taxpayer’ out our approach to delivering our challenge and influence the decisions mission. Our strategy is always we take. The last couple of years informed by stakeholder views and Looking forward have been ones of unrivalled scrutiny, consulting with the public will be a key following the legal judgment on the focus for us in the next 2 years. Safety will of course continue to be Magnox contract. We’ve responded our number one priority and built to a range of external analysis into everything we do. As well as People development and recommendations, and while placing safety at the heart of our site there may be additional learning to operations, we’ll also be continuing There’ll be some significant come from the Magnox Inquiry and our important work to promote mental appointments made across the Tailored Review, I’m confident in the and health and wellbeing across the NDA group in the period covered by steps we’ve taken to strengthen and NDA group. this Business Plan. In the NDA we’ll improve our capacity and capability. welcome a new Chair, following Tom Government’s one year spending Smith’s decision not to seek a further Thanks round, setting out its spending term. Tom will step down from the role plans for 2020/21, underlines the of Chair in February 2020, after I’d like to end by thanking all my commitment to our nationally 3 years in post and 7 years in total colleagues.