Implementing NDA’s Strategy - a year on
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Implementing NDA’s Strategy - a year on
Update to NuLeaf September 2012
Bill Hamilton, NDA Head of Stakeholder Relations
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Outline
• NDA Strategy
• Strategic Themes
– Site Restoration
– Integrated Waste Management
– Spent Fuel
– Nuclear Materials
• Summary
NDA Strategy
• Under Energy Act (2004) obligations we must review and publish our Strategy at least every five years
• UK Government and the Scottish Ministers approved our new Strategy in March 2011
• The Strategy incorporates stakeholder views, feedback and responses to the consultation on our Draft Strategy
• Effective from April 2011
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NDA Strategic Themes
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Scope of NDA Strategy
Site End States
Land Quality Management
Decommissioning & Clean-Up
SITE RESTORATION NUCLEAR MATERIALSSPENT FUELINTEGRATED WASTE
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS OPTIMISATION
CRITICAL ENABLERS
Exotic Fuels
Oxide Fuel
Magnox Fuel
Uranics
Plutonium
Non-Rad & Hazardous
Lower Activity Waste
Higher Activity Waste
Land & Property Management
Revenue Optimisation
People
Research & Development
HSSSEQ
Competition
Contracting & Incentivisation
Asset Management
Socio-Economics
Info & Knowledge Management
Supply Chain Development
International Relations
Funding
Transport & Logistics
Public & Stakeholder Engagement
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Our legacy
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Site Restoration
Aim of strategy development = optimise roadmap implicit in lifetime plans
Knowledge of site condition, site
setting and good practice
Site Restoration Strategy
Optimised Site Restoration Roadmap
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Site Restoration - Strategy development
• What level of restoration are we aiming for?
• How should we do it?
• When should we do it?
Knowledge of site condition, site
setting and good practice
Site Restoration Strategy
Optimised Site Restoration Roadmap
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Products of strategy development
1. Principles for defining Site End States
– Including a position on in-situ and on-site solutions
2. NDA estate-wide view of options for future land use
– Incorporating Integrated Waste Management strategy
3. Principles for defining Interim States
– Including position on continuous versus deferred decommissioning
4. Principles for prioritising restoration projects
5. Guidance on institutional controls that apply throughout site restoration journey
Integrated Waste Management
• Established Strategy Development Programme (Published May 2012)
• Our programme covers four different types of activity:– support to Government– strategy development– support to other driving
strategies– monitoring strategy
implementation.• IWM Programme Matrix and
Product Groups
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Past / Current practices – Baseline Plans
HAW Package(grout) Store
LLW Package(grout)
LLWR
Liquid and Gaseous Waste
Non-Radioactive and Hazardous Waste
Discharges
Landfill
GDF
HAW Interim Storage Guidance
• NDA will ensure that its strategy allows for the safe and secure storage of HAW for a period of at least 100 years
• NDA led a project that was responsible for delivering Industry Guidance on the storage of packaged HAW for the current UK civil decommissioning and clean-up programmes
• Issue 2 to be published later on this year
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Consolidation of Wastes
The movement of waste and/or nuclear materials between nuclear licensed sites that will secure a clear business benefit. Consolidation may be considered at a local, regional, NDA-wide or UK-wide level
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DSRLBaseline
On-site ILW storage
Southern ScotlandBaseline
• On-site storagePossible solution• NDA regional?
• Southern Scotland solutiono Regional store at 1 or 2 sites?
Sellafield LtdBaseline
• On-site ILW storage
Magnox – WalesBaseline
• On-site storagePossible solution• ILW store 1 site?
MAGNOX – EnglandBaseline
• Ministore on-site storagePossible solution
• Ministores consolidation?
Others• EdF – Energy
• MoD• AWE
RSRLBaseline
• Remaining Harwell ILW on site (Treatment and Storage)Possible solution
• Winfrith ILW offsite?• Harwell ILW offsite?
For illustrative purposes only
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Long-term management options
LLWR
Exempt waste
Alternative VLLW
Disposal
Transport
Compaction & Packaging
Metal recycling
Characterise, Sort and Segregate
Compaction & Packaging
Reuse and Recycle
Incineration
LLW Past / Baseline
LLW Strategy
Joint LLW Management Plans
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Impact of UK LLW Strategy
• 3915 tonnes of metals and 571 m3 combustible materials diverted from LLWR via alternative treatment routes
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Making a difference?
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Next: more guidance on VLLW and lower activity LLW disposal6-9 month project to further develop the strategy for VLLW and lower activity LLW. Comprising:•Assessment of arisings, need and capacity•Accommodating different needs in different parts of the country•Use of VLLW in the LLWR Cap construction•Assessment of Sellafield on-site / near-site disposal plans •Improve understanding of how on-site disposal affects our ability to clear our sites•CIRIA / EA work on erosion of landfills in coastal environments
And really important….• Underpinned by good stakeholder dialogue
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Spent Fuels
• Magnox Fuel
• Oxide Fuels
• Exotic Fuels– DFR Breeder– RSRL
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Magnox Fuel Strategy Position
• MOP performance has been inconsistent, and requires sustained, drastic improvement if expectations are to be met.
• To date, no reason found suggesting reprocessing could not continue up to 2020. No case for strategic change currently.
• MOP 9 Document now published.
• MOP inconsistency means NDA are exploring both contingency and alternative options to manage spent Magnox fuel
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Strategic Contingency and Alternative Options
1. Further exploration of Magnox alternative strategic options is being undertaken at a high level: largely focussing on interim in-reactor storage and options thereafter.
2. Ongoing contingency development work has been extended to: – include the entirety of the MOP
inventory (the present focus is on drying of wetted fuel),
– give wider consideration to management of the risks and hazards associated with wet storage, in parallel to ‘dry’ technologies
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Oxide fuels strategy
• After the NDA was formed it inherited a range of contracts covering reprocessing and storage of oxide spent fuels.
• THORP is now expected to complete the reprocessing contracts in 2018.
• In Strategy II, we committed to a strategic review ie an economic assessment of the lifecycle options
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What have we done?
• Determined our ‘Strategic Position’ on Oxide fuels
• Published and engaged on this through our Credible Options paper in November 2011
• Confirmation of this strategic position as our Preferred Option for oxide fuels depended on meeting two key conditions;
• Following further work, we have now confirmed our strategic position as our Preferred Option for oxide fuels
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What happens next?
• Performance risks that could impact on the delivery of the strategy
• The Management of Oxide Fuel Beyond the Closure of THORP in 2018
• Periodic updates on our progress with the interim storage and disposal of AGR spent fuel including any new strategic decisions
• Review the progress and health of our strategy for oxide fuels on an annual basis.
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Exotic Fuels – DFR Breeder
• Stakeholder Engagement– Credible & Preferred Options Published Early July 2011– Comments Received end of August– NDA Exec approval 31st October – NDA APPROVED STRATEGY– Mid November - Engagement Responses Published and NDA
Decision announced– Presented to Scottish Government & Highlands Council
• Anticipated first shipment of DFR Breeder to SL in late 2012
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RSRL Exotics Fuels and Materials
• Stakeholder Engagement– Credible & Preferred Options Published Early August 2011– Comments Received end of September– NDA Exec approval 31st October – NDA APPROVED STRATEGY– Mid November - Engagement Responses Published and NDA
Decision announced– Discussions with Oxfordshire CC and Cumbria Councils successful– Planning permissions submissions on-going
• First shipment of material expected Spring 2013
Nuclear Materials
Plutonium Strategy
• NDA Published Plutonium Credible Options Studies in 2010.
• Continue to consolidate plutonium storage into modern standard storage facilities
• Government announcement on national management policy for UK based civil plutonium in 2011– NDA now talking to Utilities and Technology Suppliers– Government Consultation sets out preferred position of new MOX
plant– Now providing a Business Case for Government to assist in decision
making– Put out a request for other interested parties to come forward– Due to report to Government by end of 2012
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What happens next?
• Strategy to be updated every 5 years
• Next Strategy due in 2016
• Detailed plans available in our Business Plan
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