Demonstrating and Communicating the Value of Nuclear Decommissioning to Society

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mark Wareing
Keyword(s):  
Government Funding ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Affected Area ◽  
Hazard Reduction ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
Consistent Approach

The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) responsible for the remediation of the UK’s civil nuclear liabilities. To secure government funding and demonstrate that the NDA is delivering its mission, it must be able to show that it provides value for money across its estate. Value comes in many forms, such as an improved environment, hazard reduction, changes in sky line, social amenities, money, employment, and so forth. Depending on the perspective of the receiver, and their closeness to the affected area, the weighting placed on the different aspects of value will vary. Therefore, the challenge has been to get a consistent approach that measures value and is broadly acceptable to stakeholders in which different aspects are compared and decisions are made on a national basis.

Demonstrating and Communicating the Value of Nuclear Decommissioning to Society

2012 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Mark Wareing
Keyword(s):  
Government Funding ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Affected Area ◽  
Hazard Reduction ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
Consistent Approach

The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) responsible for the remediation of the UK’s civil nuclear liabilities. To secure government funding and demonstrate that the NDA is delivering its mission, it must be able to show that it provides value for money across its estate. Value comes in many forms, such as an improved environment, hazard reduction, changes in sky line, social amenities, money, employment, and so forth. Depending on the perspective of the receiver, and their closeness to the affected area, the weighting placed on the different aspects of value will vary. Therefore, the challenge has been to get a consistent approach that measures value and is broadly acceptable to stakeholders in which different aspects are compared and decisions are made on a national basis.

scholarly journals Remediating Sellafield: A New Focus for the Site

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Hazard Reduction ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Fuel Storage ◽  
The Uk

The structure of the ownership and management of nuclear liabilities on civil sites in the United Kingdom is undergoing fundamental change. The UK Government will take responsibility for the liabilities on the UKAEA, BNFL Sellafield and Capenhurst sites and the Magnox Generation sites. When fully implemented the accountability for long term strategy will rest with the new Government Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), and contracts will be placed on M&O contractors to manage the site and implement the liabilities discharge plans. At Sellafield whilst the commercial reprocessing and MOX contracts continue, it is clear that the overall focus of the site has changed to remediation. Until the NDA is established the task of undertaking the planning is the responsibility of BNFL. To address this task the Site Remediation Team has been established. The production of the Sellafield Lifecycle Baseline Plan requires the existing long term decommissioning and waste management plans (primarily produced for provisioning purposes) together with several other specific strategies to be combined and developed into a co-ordinated and optimised plan for the remediation of the Sellafield Site, recognising the ongoing reprocessing, MOX manufacture and long term fuel storage activities. An important principle within the plan is to achieve early hazard reduction whilst demonstrating value for money. The paper will address the scale of the remediation challenge and the process being followed to develop the necessary strategy. The paper will appeal to those involved in managing remediation of large, complex and interdependent nuclear sites.

The organisation & the costs of the decommissioning nuclear plants in the UK

2009 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Steve Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Fuels ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Nuclear Plants ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Jel Classifications

- UK electricity consumers have paid provisions for decommissioning since before 1980 but by 2002, there were still negligible funds available to pay for decommissioning civil nuclear facilities. By then, the two major UK nuclear companies, British Energy and British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL), were both effectively bankrupt. This paper examines: the pre-2002 provisions for decommissioning and how they were lost; the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a new public body which took over ownership of BNFL's facilities including the duty to manage their decommissioning and how it expects to carry out and fund decommissioning of its sites; how the re-launched British Energy will contribute to decommissioning its eight plants; and government plans for collecting decommissioning provisions for any new plants.JEL classifications: L50, L38, H23, H44, L71Key words: Nuclear power, decommissioning cost, funding and polluter pays.

Contractual Uncertainty, Power and Public Contracting

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS LONSDALE
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Contracting ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Public Bodies

This article discusses the concept of contractual uncertainty and assesses its impact upon the ability of public sector bodies to obtain value for money from their suppliers. Particularly in the realm of public private partnerships, governments around the world are increasingly developing specifications that are likely to be subject to contractual uncertainty. Contractual uncertainty is not necessarily a problem in itself, but can be if the public body cannot avoid an unfavourable power relation in its dealings with the supplier, because it is in a poor position to undertake the inevitable post-contractual negotiations. The argument is illustrated with two cases from the UK public sector that highlight the fact that British public bodies are often seeking to manage contractual uncertainty from a position of weakness.

Performance against Objectives

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Statistical Yearbook ◽  
Public Bodies

This chapter analyses the performance of the UK Film Council in relation to some of its key stated policy objectives and funding schemes and initiatives. As a distinctive organisation with few obvious comparators around the globe, it notes the challenges and limitations of such a task and the difficulties involved in measuring the performance of public bodies more generally. The resultant analysis draws extensively on secondary source statistical data, such as the BFI Statistical Yearbook and the UKFC’s annual reports and reviews. It also focuses on independent assessments by external analysts and internal documentation assessing the effectiveness of policies and interventions. Overall, this chapter examines the Film Council’s efforts to build a competitive film industry, widen choice and promote exports, while also considering its performance as a public body in terms of delivering value for money.

Key Differentiators Influencing the Choice of Robust Shielded Containers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Morris ◽  
Stephen Wickham ◽  
David Nicholls ◽  
Ciara Walsh ◽  
James McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Ductile Cast Iron ◽  
Hazard Reduction ◽  
Disposal Facility ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Alternative Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Interim Storage

The NDA’s Upstream Optioneering project has examined the potential implications of using an alternative type of waste package and its influence on the waste management lifecycle across the NDA estate. Robust Shielded Containers (RSCs) are radioactive waste packages that provide integral radiological shielding, reducing the need for remote handling. The robustness of the container could remove the need to immobilise waste by cement encapsulation. RSCs are routinely used to package ILW for interim storage in Germany and have fairly recently been considered for use in the UK because RSCs have the potential to simplify the waste management lifecycle and enable risk and hazard reduction. In particular, the current baseline (included in Magnox Limited lifetime plans) follows the strategy set out in the Magnox Operating Decommissioning Programme (MODP), in which Type II MOSAIK and Type VI Ductile Cast Iron Containers (DCICs) are used to package (in non-encapsulated form) most Magnox ILW arising prior to 2050. By considering representative types of Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) and exploring potential packaging options for these wastes, this paper identifies the factors that could differentiate between cases in which RSCs would, or would not, be an appropriate option. The potential role of RSCs across the waste management lifecycle is examined, from retrieval of waste through to emplacement at a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF), including consideration of other potential uses of RSCs, such as temporary storage of raw wastes for which appropriate treatment and conditioning measures have yet to be developed.

scholarly journals Does Public Service Television Really Give Consumers Less Good Value for Money than the Rest of the Market?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Barwise
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Implication ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Public ◽  
Consumer Value ◽  
Consumer Benefits ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tv Commercial ◽  
Better Than

This chapter explores the assumption that public service television (PST), i.e. BBC TV, commercial public service broadcasters (PSBs), and non-PSBs, offers less consumer value for money than the rest of the market in the UK; that the only continuing rationale for PST rests on citizen concerns. It shows that PST does give citizens public service benefits over and above those provided by the non-PSBs and online-only TV players, and these ‘citizenship’ benefits are highly valued by the public. PST also offers consumers better value for money because the non-PSBs' significantly higher cost per viewer-hour seems unlikely to be compensated for by commensurately higher audience appreciation. The main policy implication is simple: there is no necessary trade-off between citizen and consumer benefits: pound for pound, PST appears to deliver both sets of benefits better than the rest of the market.

At what cost?

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Sue Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

With childcare in the UK now being some of the most expensive in the world, questions about the sustainability of settings and the impact of funding on social mobility are at the centre of policy debates. Sue Cowley takes a look at the current situation with government funding and assesses the impact of the 30 hours entitlement.

Designing a New Highly Active Liquid Evaporator

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Robson ◽  
Emma Candy
Keyword(s):  
Operational Experience ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Active Liquid ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Plant Equipment ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Facility

The Highly Active Liquid Effluent Storage (HALES) plant stores, concentrates and conditions Highly Active Liquor (HAL) in evaporators for buffer storage in Highly Active Storage Tanks (HAST). Highly Active (HA) evaporators play a pivotal role in the delivery of reprocessing, historic clean up and hazard reduction missions across the Sellafield site. In addition to the engineering projects implemented to extend the life expectation of the current evaporator fleet, the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) is sponsoring the construction of a new HA evaporator (Evaporator D) on the Sellafield site. The design and operation of the new HA evaporator is based on existing/recent HA evaporator technology but learning from past operational experience. Operational experience has been a key area where the existing plant operators have influenced both the new design itself and the requirements for commissioning and training. Many of the learning experiences require relatively simple engineering design modifications such as a new internal washing provision and transfer line blockage recovery systems, they are never-the-less expected to significantly improve the flexibility and operational capability of the new evaporator. Issues that the project delivery team has addressed as part of the development of the design and construction have included: • Minimising interruptions and/or changes to the normal operations of interfacing plants during construction, commissioning and operation of the new facility. • Modularisation of the plant, enabling fabrication of the majority of the plant equipment off-site within a workshop (as opposed to on-site) environment improving Quality Assurance and reducing on-Site testing needs. • Drawing out the balance between operational and corrosion resistance improvements with actual design and delivery needs. • Provision of a new facility reliant on the infrastructure of an existing and ageing facility and the competing demands of the related safety cases.

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