ANNUAL REPORT Annual Report & Accounts 2018/19 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 2 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Report presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 14 (6) of the Energy Act 2004 and Accounts presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 26 (10) of the Energy Act 2004. Report laid before the Scottish Parliament pursuant to Section 14 (8) of the Energy Act 2004 and Accounts laid before the Scottish Parliament pursuant to Section 26 (11) of the Energy Act 2004. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 4 July 2019 HC 2425 3 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 © Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit: nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3. 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Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Herdus House Westlakes Science and Technology Park Moor Row Cumbria CA24 3HU ISBN 978-1-5286-1451-1 CCS0619490712 06/19 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Printed in the UK by the APS Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 4 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Contents Overview of Performance Financial summary 2018/19 ...................................82 2018/19 Progress .....................................................8 Nuclear provision ....................................................84 Chairman’s statement ............................................10 Parliamentary accountability Chief Executive’s review .........................................12 disclosures .............................................................86 Financial overview ..................................................14 The audit report of the Comptroller and One NDA ................................................................16 Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament .........87 Delivering our mission ............................................22 Health, safety, security, safeguards Annual Accounts and environment overview .....................................26 Annual accounts .....................................................89 Overview of site performance ................................28 The NDA: Our people .............................................36 Performance Report and other information Working with our stakeholders ...............................38 Business performance .........................................138 Technology and innovation .....................................40 Glossary and abbreviations ..................................158 NDA organisational structure .................................42 Useful links and documentation ...........................160 NDA corporate centre performance .......................44 Contact details .....................................................161 Appendix A - Nuclear provision............................162 Accountability Report Appendix B - NDA Group - summary Directors’ report .....................................................49 of events confirmed as INES1 or Statement of Accounting Officer’s higher during 2018/19 ..........................................164 responsibilities ........................................................50 Appendix C - Major projects cost Governance statement ...........................................51 and schedule ........................................................165 Remuneration and people report ...........................67 Health, safety, security, safeguards and environment report ..........................................78 5 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 6 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Overview of performance 7 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 2018/19 progress An overview of our business and annual performance LAST fuel shear marks the GDF end of THORP community-driven reprocessing siting process at Sellafield launched 8 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 ALMOST HALF of all fuel elements Gooda clean-up progress removed from delivered within budget Dounreay Fast set by HMG Reactor 1st Bradwell first UK Demolition of Magnox site to enter Sellafield’s pile care and maintenance chimney now underway Successfula assembly of the 80% first silo emptying machine of all fuel removed at the Magnox Swarf from Wylfa Storage Silos, Sellafield 9 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Chairman’s review Tom Smith 10 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Message from our Chairman Our teams on the ground bring passion, determination and innovation to the challenges we face. I look forward with anticipation and confidence as our improvement activities start to make a positive difference across the group. Our performance financial year as a substantially renewed Board changes Clean-up of the UK’s historical nuclear organisation with a new set of principles Dr Adrian Simper has stepped down from facilities is an essential task for the country, that define the way we, and the sites, will the NDA Board after more than 4 years. and we’re committed to carrying out work together. Our headline description for On behalf of the Board, I thank Adrian our mission safely and responsibly while this is ‘One NDA’ and the aim is to create for his service as a Board member and I’m delivering maximum value for taxpayers. a foundation for collaborative working delighted that he is continuing to support the that will enable us to achieve continuous Board through his vital work as our Group Safety performance, one of the Board’s improvement in everything we do. Director of Nuclear Strategy and Technology. top priorities, has been satisfactory, but we see opportunity for improvement and more We hope these changes, which will take Over the course of 2018/19, we welcomed sharing of safety-related experience and some time to mature and embed themselves, Lorraine Baldry as Chair of Sellafield Ltd, and Lawrie Haynes as Chair Designate methods across our estate. will be a positive and effective response to the extensive public scrutiny that the NDA at Magnox Ltd. Both bring many years of experience to their roles. Our sites made steady progress during has rightly been under. I am excited and 2018/19 in our long-term clean-up mission. optimistic about the possibilities that lie Thanks Magnox placed its first site into formal care ahead for us. I’d like to pay tribute to everyone involved and maintenance, with the approval of the in our mission, particularly the workforce, Workforce and stakeholders Office for Nuclear Regulation. Sellafield our regulators, government sponsors and As I travel around the country visiting ended fuel reprocessing operations, as colleagues and the community stakeholders Chairman’s planned, at one of its two reprocessing different NDA sites, I’m continually impressed who live near our sites. They all provide by the commitment of our people. Our teams facilities. Our subsidiary Radioactive Waste indispensable support and important on the ground bring passion, determination Management Ltd launched the consultation challenge to us, and I look forward to and dialogue process to identify a volunteer and innovation to the challenges we face. continuing these partnerships. review host community for a Geological Disposal Facility. Our relationships with the surrounding communities are also vitally important. We Tom Smith One NDA welcome the engagement we have with site Alongside continued progress in the stakeholder groups, politicians and local decommissioning challenge, we have over organisations, who challenge our approach the last 2 years undertaken a wholesale and hold us to account for our decisions. review of our resources, our capability, our Our constructive dialogues also enable us to structure, our culture and our relationships allocate our socio-economic investments to with the 17 sites that make up our estate. projects that help sustain communities affected Tom Smith That work reached a conclusion in the by our decommissioning activities. We depend NDA Chairman 18 June 2019 final months of 2018/19. We enter the new on their support both now and in the future. 11 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Chief Executive’s review David Peattie 12 NDA Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 Message from our Chief Executive Our role in cleaning up the nuclear legacy is of national importance. A year of change and progress has set a strong platform from which we can build a more cohesive NDA group to drive the delivery of our mission. We’re here to clean up the legacy of the attract young people leaving school, college Their skills are vital to our performance and, past. Our role is to ensure that this task - of and university so we have access to the skills along with the expertise of our supply chain, significant national importance - is carried out and bright young minds we will need to deliver enable us to share our learning internationally. safely and efficiently, ensuring both people and our mission. When I visited Japan recently as chair of the environment are safeguarded at all times. our jointly owned shipping business, PNTL, Progressing our decommissioning journey I was pleased to note the esteem in which We have again ensured spending remains