Moving from tenant to nuclear licence holder on a GB Nuclear Licensed Site

摘要

Tradebe Inutec is a specialist provider of radioactive waste treatment and recycling solutions; It has been a tenant on the Winfrith Nuclear Licensed Site in Dorset, for 22 years. The historical nuclear research and development facilities on the site are being decommissioned as part of the UK nuclear decommissioning programme, which has led to Inutec applying for its own Nuclear Site Licence. This has proved to be a long process, involving the management of numerous stakeholders; ensuring compliance with extensive and complex regulations; and having to interweave the negotiations with a range of other activities related to the purchase of the land and the buildings. This article, therefore, examines the key challenges involved; how these were overcome; and the lessons learnt during the lengthy application process.