The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a public body of the United Kingdom formed by the Energy Act, 2004. It came into existence on 1 April 2005. Its purpose is to oversee and manage the decommissioning and clean-up of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy. The NDA took ownership of the sites involved, but the operational work itself is carried out by contractors. Jump to: navigation, search April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The sites involved are:

• BNFL's British Nuclear Group subsidiary:
  • Sellafield nuclear chemical facility
  • Capenhurst uranium enrichment plant
  • Drigg low level waste repository
• BNFL's Westinghouse Electric Company subsidiary:
  • Springfields nuclear fuel production facility
• The 11 Magnox nuclear power stations
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) nuclear research sites:
  • Culham Joint European Torus
  • Dounreay
  • Harwell
  • Windscale
  • Winfrith

As of 2005 the cost of decommissioning these sites is planned at £55.8 billion, with Sellafield requiring £31.5 billion. Sellafield aerial view. ... British Nuclear Group is a subsidiary of BNFL set up to operate and manage the decommisioning of many of the UKs nuclear assets under contract to the Nuclear Decommisssioning Authority, a government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sellafield is a village near the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England, close to the village and railway station of Seascale. ... Jump to: navigation, search General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block ?, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic Atomic mass 238. ... Sellafield aerial view. ... Westinghouse Electric Company is the present day nuclear company. ... Magnox is an obsolesent type of nuclear power reactor; When operated on a short fuel cycle (which is uneconomic) they can also produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. ... The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was established in 1954 as a statutory corporation to oversee and pioneer the development of nuclear energy within the United Kingdom. ... Culham is a village on the north bank of the River Thames near Abingdon in southern Oxfordshire. ... Split image of JET with right side showing hot plasma during a shot. ... Dounreay (Ordnance Survey grid reference NC982669) is primarily a ruinous castle on the coast of Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. ... The Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Harwell, Oxfordshire was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s. ... Sellafield aerial view. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On its creation, the NDA also took over ownership of Direct Rail Services, the rail freight operating company set up by BNFL in 1995 to transport nuclear materials. Class 37/0 no. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• NDA website
• DTI site about the NDA
• "The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority", Steve Thomas (2004), Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich
• UK nuclear decommissioning efforts now answerable to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Bellona Foundation, 4 April 2005
• UK nuclear industry is allegedly "cheating the market", Bellona Foundation, 18 January 2005