Transcript Presentation, Peter Orr, Environment Agency, delivering

Overview of Environment Agency
Decommissioning and Clean up
programme – delivering Nuclear site
restoration
NuLeaf meeting – 14 July 2010
Peter Orr, decommissioning and clean up
programme manager, Environment Agency
CONTENTS:
Future challenges
Corporate Strategy and nuclear regulation objectives
5 year plan
Site restoration
Summary
Future challenges
Gordon Brown
Our Aim
A better place
for people
and wildlife
To achieve this we will
Act to reduce
climate change and
its consequences
Protect and
improve air, land
and water quality
Put people and
communities
at the heart of
what we do
Be the best
we can
Work with
businesses and the
public sector to use
resources wisely
Act to reduce Climate Change and its
Consequences
We will know we are succeeding when:
New nuclear power stations meet world class environmental
standards, and there is robust infrastructure delivering
progress in legacy decommissioning and clean-up, and
radioactive waste management and disposal.
Decommissioning and clean up
New Nuclear Build
Operating sites
Emergency response
Geological disposal
Be the best we can
5 year plan
Our decommissioning and clean up
programme
Progress is made in dealing with the Nuclear
Legacy
Reducing the risk to this generation and the
burden on future generations
Covers all work that delivers these outcomes
and will ensure continued protection of the
environment
Site restoration - discussion
Overview
Tasks
Strategy and plan
Supporting strategies
Risks and mitigation
Monitoring progress and performance
Priorities
Questions
Working together
NDA restoration overview
LEAD STRATEGY
Agreed aims and objectives
Public participation
Baseline position or status report
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Clear distinction of tasks
Strategy for tasks - reducing risk and burden
for future generations
Site restoration tasks
Retrieval and treatment of legacy
radioactive wastes
Treatment of radioactive waste (to make
immobile) from ongoing operations
Stabilisation of redundant nuclear facilities
Dismantling of legacy facilities
Selling of assets or commercial operations
Remediation and restoration
NDA site restoration strategy & plan
Strategy - achievement of aims and objectives
Protection of the environment (sustainability)
Reduction of hazard and risk (priority)
Early or deferred decommissioning (funding)
Decade by decade schedule (transparency)
Milestones – interim states (accountability)
Plan - risk mitigation, realising opportunities
and issue resolution (value for money)
Supporting strategies
Fuels and materials (both a legacy and
opportunity to use assets for revenue)
Waste (the main challenge)
Knowledge management (doing it better)
Public stakeholder engagement (gaining
support and new ideas)
Commercial (leveraging innovation)
Risks and mitigation
Major event or accident Risk stabilisation (asset care)
and reduction plan
Disposal infrastructure
National Integrated Waste
strategy
Funding
Agreed site restoration plan
Road map for
innovation
Milestones drive new
approaches and research
Best practice
Leveraging international
practice (standardising)
Monitoring progress and performance
National Annual report
Supported by site annual Environment Reports
Context of site “interim states”, “end states” &
milestones
Covers supporting strategies
Performance metrics
Transparent change control
Priorities
National major hazard and risk reduction plan
Baseline position
Strategic Environmental Assessment &
Environmental Impact Assessment
Alternative strategic futures
Public participation
Consensus
Questions?
Role of local authorities
Regional and local planning
Proximity principle
Transparency of information
Enabling public participation
Support from the Environment Agency
NDA strategy 2
Implementing strategies – not just decisions
Working together
Local partnering groups focussed on site
restoration and delivery
Local agreements (binding?)
One place for shared information (e portal)
Sharing resources
Share messages to strategy 2
Summary
Site restoration plan
Priorities
Environmental assessment & public
participation (National and local)
Accountability
Local agreements
Working together