U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Adds to Portfolio

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The government of the United Kingdom said Friday it would in 2021 assume ownership of the privately held entities managing disposal of the nation’s low-level radioactive waste and cleanup at a retired reactor site in Scotland.Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd. will become a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in March 2021, followed by Low Level Waste Repository Ltd. (LLWR) in July of that year. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a nondepartmental government agency charged with managing retirment and remediation of nuclear facilities around the nation. In has already taken over the two other major entities in the field: Sellafield Ltd. which conducts remediation and reprocessing at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, in 2016; and Magnox Ltd., which manages 10 retired nuclear power plants and a handful of other sites, last year.