UK cleanup: you decide

摘要

The 11 August release of the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's (NDA's) draft strategy for consultation was, according to NDA chairman Sir Anthony Cleaver: "A major step forward in that we have got a coherent plan for decommissioning all our civil nuclear plants." The draft strategy details: 1. Plans to launch competitions for the operation and management of 13 sites by 2008. 2. Plans to accelerate decommissioning timescales of Magnox stations. 3. Evaluation of options for interim storage of intermediate-level radioactive waste. 4. New solutions for the disposal of low-level waste. 5. A consultation process to agree site end-states and timescales.