Key
- Research
- Define Credible Options
- Assess and Select Preferred Option
- Approve Strategy
- Implement Strategy
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Developing Our Strategy
You can understand how we control and manage the development of our strategy by reading our short guide:
Strategy Management System Short Guide (250kb)
Latest News
09 August 2011
Options for management of Harwell fuels
The NDA has published Credible and Preferred options associated with the management of exotic fuels, nuclear materials and wastes at Harwell.
31 March 2011
NDA publishes new Business Plan
Our 2011/12 Business Plan sets out planned annual expenditure of £2.9 billion as part of a 4 year total of approximately £12 billion.
07 February 2011
Latest version of credible options paper
The NDA has today published an updated version of the Plutonium Credible Options Analysis.
01 December 2010
NDA publishes draft Business Plan for consultation
We have published our draft Business Plan 2011 – 2014, for consultation. The consultation will run for eight weeks and close on 26 January 2011.
01 September 2010
Next phase in our Strategy for Consultation
Today we have published the draft of our updated Strategy for consultation.
NDA Strategy Document
We published our revised Strategy in March 2011.
NDA Strategy - Effective from April 2011 (full colour version) (5Mb)
For more information see Our Strategy
Find more documents in our comprehensive Document Library.
Nuclear Materials
Objective
- To ensure safe, secure and cost-effective lifecycle management of our nuclear materials.
The UK holds large stocks of civil uranium and plutonium, much of which is managed by the NDA. All of the plutonium and most of the uranium in the UK arises from the reprocessing of spent fuel and some of these nuclear materials are foreign owned.
Foreign owned nuclear materials remain the responsibility of the owners and will be managed in accordance with UK Government policy, contractual obligations and customer requirements.
For UK owned plutonium the current policy is safe and secure storage. UK Government is considering the longer term options for plutonium, the outcome of which will determine our future strategy. We also continue to store our uranics inventory safely and securely. Future management options may be informed by international developments in the secure management of these materials.
Since the NDA Strategy (2006) we have completed and published a macro-economic study into the range of options for nuclear materials. We involved stakeholders in its development and also prepared our nuclear materials credible options analyses. We will continue to engage with regulators, UK Government and Devolved Administrations to discuss and test our strategy development and also work closely with the SLCs to achieve fit for purpose, deliverable solutions.
Our Strategy
Our strategy for the management of nuclear materials reflects the current UK Government policy of safe and secure storage. We are developing options which consider alternative lifecycle management solutions.
Some of our nuclear materials have value in today's market. The rest of the inventory may increase in value in the future. Our strategy for these materials is therefore to maximise value and avoid foreclosing any future options unless there is a hazard management priority.
The nuclear materials inventory is stored safely and securely on several sites across the NDA estate. We will consider whether consolidated storage is more appropriate for reasons of security and economy and consider other nuclear material owners in developing our plans.
We will support UK Government as it determines future policy on plutonium and we will subsequently deliver appropriate strategies. This includes R&D work to technically underpin the options.
Our strategy for material owned by third parties is to continue its management in accordance with contractual obligations and UK Government policy.
