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Site Progress Key
On target |
On target |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target |
Behind target |
Safety and Environmental Performance Key
| Nuclear Safety | |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more INES Level 1 or above in the month |
| Industrial Safety | |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more RIDDOR reportable events in the month |
| Environmental Safety |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more environmental non compliances in the month |
Harwell
Harwell
Didcot
Oxon
OX11 0RA
Tel. 01235 820 220
For NDA Harwell Office details click here
Harwell was established in 1946 as Britain’s first Atomic Energy Research Establishment. The site accommodated five research reactors of various types. Harwell also had a number of other nuclear research facilities, together with plutonium handling facilities, radioactive laboratories, nuclear waste treatment and storage facilities.
Decommissioning is well underway – two of the reactors have been completely removed, and the fuel has been removed from the remaining three which are now being decommissioning. More than 100 other facilities have been removed from the site and others are being decommissioned. Historic wastes are being retrieved from their existing storage locations and repackaged for longer-term storage - and eventual disposal. It is expected that decommissioning will be completed by 2025.
Overview
| Age | Operated from 1946 - 1990 |
|---|---|
| Site Stakeholder Group | Harwell Site Stakeholder Group |
| Site Licensee | Research Sites Restoration Ltd |
| Parent Body Organisation | UKAEA Ltd (owned by Babcock International Group (BIG) Limited) |
| Status | Decommissioning |
| Cost - Lifetime (total discounted nuclear liability) |
£1,178m (for Harwell and Winfrith) |
* The costs of discharging the nuclear liability will be incurred over a significant period of time. To take account of the time value of money, the costs are "discounted" back to a present value. Effectively this is the amount that would need to be invested today, at a set rate of interest (the discount rate) in order to pay for the liability in the future as it falls due.
| Year | Key Activities |
|---|---|
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2064 |
Final site clearance achieved |
| 2032 | Site closure phase begins |
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2031 |
Reactor decommissioning complete |
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2023 |
Primary facilities decommissioning complete |
Progress against this year's targets
Status as at end Quarter 3 (end December 2011) - next update due April 2012
Site Restoration
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
Care and Maintenance of redundant reactors and other facilities |
On target |
On track |
Removal of designation from the eastern area of the site |
On target |
On track |
Nuclear Materials
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
Developing and implementing a programme for the transfer of nuclear materials from the Harwell site |
On target |
On track: Business case submited in September 2011 |
Integrated Waste Management
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
Processing of radium cans |
On target |
On track |
Processing of sludge LLW in the Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant |
On target |
On track but there is risk further process may be delayed as there is uncertianty over the waste route. Mitigating actions are being worked. |
Recovery, processing and packaging of solid ILW |
On target |
On track |
Safety and Environmental Performance
Status as at end Quarter 3 (end December 2011) - next update due April 2012
