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	Dounreay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The airfield was transferred to the Admiralty by RAF Coastal Command in 1944, as a satellite of HMS Tern at Twatt in the Orkney Isles.
		Decommissioning of Dounreay is planned to bring the site to an interim care and surveillance state by 2036, and as a brownfield site by 2336, at a total cost of £2.9 billion.
		Irradiated nuclear fuel particles on the seabed near the plant, with some being washed ashore, including a small number on the public Sandside Bay beach.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dounreay_Nuclear_Power_Station (793 words)

	ipedia.com: Nuclear reactor Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nuclear power can also be generated in a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which produces heat through subcritical radioactive decay rather than fission in a near-critical mass.
		In the vast majority of the world's nuclear power plants, heat energy generated by fissioning uranium fuel is collected in purified water and is carried away from the reactor's core either as steam in boiling water reactors or as superheated water in pressurized-water reactors.
		Nuclear power does have very useful additional advantages such as the production of radioisotopes (used in medicine and food preservation), though the demand for these products can be satisfied by a relatively small number of plants.
	www.ipedia.com /nuclear_reactor.html (3454 words)

	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a public body of the United Kingdom formed by the Energy Act, 2004.
		Its purpose is to oversee and manage the decommissioning and clean-up of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_Decommissioning_Authority (204 words)

	60 billion pounds required to destroy UK's nuclear waste
		The NDA, established in April after the various nuclear bodies in the country were reorganised, has initiated a three-month consultation on how the 20 aging nuclear sites in the country could be closed safely.
		The NDA said the time required for decommissioning the Magnox stations would be around 25 years, against the earlier plan to make them safe in a period of 10 to 15 years and then to leave them for 60 or 70 years, before returning to finish the job.
		NDA, after proper study of the plant said in its document that the plant is not capable of handling thousands of tonnes of spent fuel even from Britain's plants.
	www.abcmoney.co.uk /news/122005671.htm (790 words)

	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NDA is then required to approve the change if any economic benefit to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry exceeds the additional cost of decommissioning the liabilities.
		NDA will be hosting a workshop for contractors to understand some of the major aspects of NDA's work and to interact with NDA staff.
		The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which is launched today, Friday 1st April 2005, has strategic responsibility for the decommissioning and clean-up of all 20 of the UK public sector civil nuclear sites.
	www.nda.gov.uk /default.aspx?pg=42&title=+/+News+/+News (1219 words)

	Nuclear Engineering International
		Breakthrough answers needed to solve decommissioning problems are unlikely to be found within the continuous improvement culture of the old style nuclear industry; better mousetraps won’t necessarily make a big difference to the estimated £48 billion ($88 billion) cost of decommissioning Britain’s civil nuclear infrastructure over the next 100 years.
		While experiences with US nuclear waste may not always be typical, they are important because the USA has the oldest nuclear programme in the world, the largest amount of waste needing disposition and the most financial resources to do so sensibly and safely.
		The nuclear regulators and the NDA will need to work much more closely together in the future to agree precisely what clean-up methods and techniques are fit for the purpose and share best practice across the UK clean-up programme.
	www.neimagazine.com /storyprint.asp?sc=2025220 (1727 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		The THORP facility was transferred to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as part of a reorganization of the UK’s £40 billion nuclear waste liabilities.
		The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is tasked with cleaning up the UK's nuclear legacy, but the THORP accident has slowed that process because its contribution to the cleanup budget will not be available as long as it is shut down.
		Sir Anthony Cleaver is chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority that is responsible for THORP.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/may2005/2005-05-11-02.asp (935 words)

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		The NDA budget The Treasury, ever eager to find ways to fund its work without taking money from taxpayers, was not slow to spot the NLIP and in the White Paper, the government foresaw the NLIP as the initial payment into the segregated fund or the segregated account that would fund NDA’s overall programme.
		Decommissioning is not expected to be complete before 2036 (markedly shorter than earlier estimates which would probably have stretched out till the 22nd century) and the UKAEA has said that the main hazards will be made ‘passively safe’ in the next 20 years.
		Decommissioning to the extent of the site being made passively safe is expected to be completed in 2017 with final clearance by 2065, although clearly there is no possibility of the site being released even then.
	www.psiru.org /reports/2004-12-E-NDA.doc (4881 words)

	West Lakes Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will have the opportunity to tap into the wealth of specialist skills that we have in West Cumbria and will further develop the nuclear cluster in our region.
		Decommissioning will cost taxpayers a staggering £48 billion and this figure is likely to rise, experts say.
		It is hoped that the authority will take premises at Westlakes Science Park, near Whitehaven and representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry are visiting the area on Tuesday to start rolling out plans for the NDA in West Cumbria.
	www.westlakesrenaissance.co.uk /newsdetails.asp?ID=103 (743 words)

	BBC - Cumbria - Features - Nuclear decommissioning at Sellafield
		Decommissioning is basically the complete dismantling of former nuclear facilities.
		The official rather wordy definition from the DTI is: 'Decommissioning is a staged process through which a nuclear facility, at which normal operations have finally ceased, is taken out of service, including full or partial dismantling of buildings and their contents.
		The objective of decommissioning is to remove the hazard the facility poses progressively, giving due regard to security considerations, the safety of workers and the general public and protecting the environment, while in the longer term reducing the number of sites and acreage of land which remain under regulatory control.'
	www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/content/articles/2005/04/07/nuclear_decommissioning_feature.shtml (1209 words)

	UK's nuclear decommissioning costs exceed Pnds 50 billion - Irna
		Decommissioning Britain's ageing nuclear power stations will cost billions of pounds more than what was previously estimated, according to the first report by the country's recently established Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
		Authority chairman Sir Anthony Cleaver said that the new estimate was based on the costs over the whole lifetime of the sites.
		The decommissioning estimates come as Britain is considering building a new era of nuclear plants as part of a mix to offset the country becoming more dependent on oil and gas imports with reserves in the North Sea running dry.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/line-16/0508113573175657.htm (333 words)

	UK nuclear decommissioning efforts now answerable to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
		That effort involves, by and large, the decommissioning of those facilities at sites that were designed to manufacture Britains nuclear capability in the first place.
		By a 2004 order of the British Government’s Department of Trade and Industry, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) came into existence on Friday April 1st, and ownership of the UK’s main nuclear sites, including Sellafield and Dounreay were passed into the new organsation.
		The last parts of the reactors core were removed in 2003 but the entire decommissioning process will not be completed until 2130, when radioactivity levels are sufficiently low to dismantle its remain support structures.
	www.bellona.no /en/energy/nuclear/sellafield/37614.html (2189 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Closure cost of nuclear stations 'an extra £8bn' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the NDA says there is a strong case to clean up and release the Magnox, older type, sites for new uses by 2030.
		SNP leader Alex Salmond said: "The authorities are struggling to deal with current sites, never mind burdening future generations with even more deadly waste." He said Scotland should instead be investing in clean, green energy sources.
		NUCLEAR power plant workers are being warned not to have casual sex on holiday - to avoid being targeted by foreign spies.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1767662005 (763 words)

	EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NDA is due to be established as of 1st April 2005 as a non-departmental public body in charge of managing most of the nuclear liabilities of the public sector in the country.
		The transfer of the first part to the NDA will be done at no cost to BNFL, that will continue normal commercial operations, although this transfer will relieve it from nuclear liabilities that it should normally have met under the “polluter pays” principle.
		In view of the complexity and the novelty of the case, as well as the importance of the sums involved, the Commission decided that an in-depth enquiry would be necessary in order to analyse the balance of the positive and negative aspects of the aid.
	europa.eu.int /rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/04/1430&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en (532 words)

	Nuclear Clean Up - Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
		The NDA will be a national body, established by primary legislation, with responsibility for legacy facilities in the UK.
		The role of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
		The NDA will want to maintain a presence close to many of the legacy sites, in order to manage contracts with licensees and relationships with local stakeholders.
	www.dti.gov.uk /nuclearcleanup/nda.htm (439 words)

	edie news centre - Nuclear decommissioning authority investigated by Commission
		The NDA is due to be established as of April 1st 2005 as a non-departmental public body in charge of managing most of the nuclear liabilities of the public sector.
		Assets belonging to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) will be transferred to the NDA who will then take on financial responsibility for the liabilities.
		In view of the complexity of the case, as well as the importance and size of the sums involved, the Commission is conducting an in-depth enquiry would be necessary to analyse the balance of the positive and negative aspects of the aid.
	www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=9263 (462 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Nuclear clean-up cost up to £56bn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NDA wants to speed up the clean-up, including that of the ageing Magnox plants, from 125 years to 25 years.
		NDA chairman Sir Anthony Cleaver said the £56bn estimate was higher than the £48bn figure the four-month-old agency had inherited.
		Among issues that the authority is looking at is the need for an alternative for Drigg in Cumbria, which is the only place in the country where low-level nuclear waste can be stored in perpetuity.
	www40.thny.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/4140636.stm (725 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Nuclear stations shutdown to cost billions more than thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Among the sites the NDA is looking at is Dounreay in Caithness - the decommissioning of which was due to be complete in 30 years' time.
		Authority chairman Sir Anthony Cleaver said today: "Over the last couple of years the contractors on the sites, in this case the UK Atomic Energy Authority and British Nuclear Fuels, have been working on a standard way of estimating the costs over the whole lifetime of each of the sites.
		But Dr John Mills, a member of the Nuclear Industry Association, told the programme: "The liabilities that are being dealt with are the legacy of a nuclear programme which had a large variety of reactor types and processes, and which had from time to time to meet various strategic imperatives.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1764622005 (761 words)

	Nuclear Clean Up - Managing The Nuclear Legacy - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NDA was formally established as a legal entity by the Energy Act 2004, it will be fully operational from 1 April 2005.
		Until then the NDA will operate in shadow form while it is being set up.
		As the NDA grows in size towards their inception in April 2005 you will find more information relating to them on their website.
	www.consumer.gov.uk /nuclearcleanup (346 words)

	Environmental Issues \| GM Food \| Nuclear Power \| GREENPEACE UK
		But while the NDA was originally flagged in the Legacy White Paper of 2002 as a body that should focus "squarely on [dealing with] the nuclear legacy", it has not been designed to fully deal with the huge problem of radioactive waste.
		The NDA will also be heavily reliant on reprocessing and Magnox reactor operations for a sizeable proportion of its income.
		The Commission's investigation of the NDA and state aid issues is of vital concern not only in the context of UK subsidies for the nuclear industry, but for the whole of Europe.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /contentlookup.cfm?CFID=1423835&CFTOKEN=51822532&UCIDParam=20050331134439 (517 words)

	Cumbria County Council : News Releases : 2004 : November : 1/11/2004 - Government pledges to safeguard west Cumbrias ...
		Job levels in West Cumbriain the nuclear industry are predicted to decline as commercial activities at Sellafield are reduced, although nuclear cleanup will provide some new opportunities in the area.
		The Forum was set up to consider the economic impact of nuclear decommissioning and cleanup at Sellafield, and to create a sustainable economy for West Cumbria.
		Hewitt also announced that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will be based at Westlakes Science and Technology Parkat Moor Row, near Whitehaven, in West Cumbriawhen the NDA becomes fully operational next April.
	www.cumbria.gov.uk /news/2004/november/11_2_2004-30740-PM.asp (679 words)

	Decommissioning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Decommissioned highway Largely in the United States of America, as the states build freeways as a new classification of highways, the state may strip the old highway of its old designation as a numbered highway or downgrade it to a 'lesser' status.
		This is especially common in the United States of America, where as an extreme example, U.S. Highway 66, which connected Chicago and Los Angeles from 1926 until 1972, lost its designation as a U.S. Highway in stages until it disappeared altogether in 1986 in favor of faster, more direct Interstate highways.
		On its creation, the NDA took over ownership of Direct Rail Services, the rail freight operating company set up by British Nuclear Fuels Limited in 1995.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/60/decommissioning.html (395 words)

	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Decommissioning and Clean-Up 6 1.1 Planned Expenditure on Decommissioning and Clean-Up 6 1.2 Key Decommissioning and Clean-Up Activities 8 1.3 Site Remediation 11 2.
		Progress is being made to complete this phase, with applicants attending at the assessment centre and interview stage of the recruitment.
		It is anticipated that Phase 3 will be completed by the end of October bringing the NDA staffing to its target of 181 employees.
	www.nda.gov.uk /search.aspx?searchText=thorp&lang=0 (253 words)

	Climate change’s nuclear fix Paul Rogers - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second argument against nuclear power as a means of combating climate change is, if anything, even stronger than the economic one: it concerns the inevitable link between nuclear power and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
		Although plutonium is the fissile material that lends itself most easily to producing nuclear weapons, it is also possible to use the basic fuel of nuclear power stations, enriched uranium, for similar purposes.
		The counter-arguments to nuclear power are authoritative and convincing, but their proponents should recall the sheer lobbying strength of the nuclear power supporters forty years ago.
	www.opendemocracy.net /debates/article-6-129-2498.jsp (1434 words)

	UIC - Newsletter 3/05
		The NDA was set up by the government under the 2004 Energy Act and is focused on the management and clean-up of UK public sector nuclear plants built in the 1940s-60s, on 20 sites.
		GE Nuclear and its Japanese partners are in discussion with the China National Nuclear Corporation and provincial governments, who are likely to be influential in technology choice for the next batch of projects.
		State parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which entered force in 1970 are convening in New York to review the NPT's operation over the last five years and the challenges that have arisen both under it and around it.
	www.uic.com.au /news305.htm (5641 words)

	The Week in Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A formal investigation to check whether the establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) by the United Kingdom complies with the EC Treaty rules on state aids has been opened by the European Commission.
		The NDA is due to be established from 1 April 2005 as a non-departmental public body in charge of managing most of the nuclear liabilities of the public sector in the UK.
		Adapting diets to reduce the occurrence of Alzheimer’s or osteoporosis and more generally to improve health among the elderly are some of the possibilities revealed by EU research on nutrition and health, with foods designed to satisfy their nutritional needs, available in convenient, easy-to-open packaging and reasonably priced.
	www.cec.org.uk /press/we/we04/we0442.htm (1406 words)

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