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  • In previous years, this event has been an overwhelming success in engaging with the suppliers who are so essential to achieving our decommissioning mission.

  • Praise for employees and supply chain as Sellafield Ltd hits clean-up milestone

  • A good practice approach within the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) shows how continuous improvement can improve performance.

  • Retrieval of high hazard materials from the Sellafield (LP&S) was an area of specific focus to urgently reducing the intolerable risk that they pose.

  • The NDA has endorsed a site-specific approach to Magnox reactor decommissioning which will involve a mix of decommissioning strategies.

  • A new framework to allow operators to balance the overall safety and environmental risks associated with remediation and consider a broader range of options in pursuit of the optimised solution.

  • The complex transfer campaign with an array of technical, logistical, safety and security considerations.

  • The Thermal Treatment Integrated Project Team carried out work to understand waste applicability, technology capability and economic aspects.

  • Optimising site funding, balancing container and operations costs with infrastructure costs.

  • A group-wide project was launched last year to help everyone feel more able to talk openly about mental health in the workplace and ensure that our people understand how to access help if they need it.

  • Purple Lumi raised the operational resilience of the NDA group by simulating a series of cyber attacks which required different parts of the sector to work together, sharing information to defeat the aggressor.

  • Development of a decommissioning toolkit of scalable, transferable and integrated solutions which would drive safer, faster and cheaper decommissioning.

  • A full review of the Nucleargraduates programme approach and content was undertaken to ensure that it continues to be attractive to the brightest and best graduates and maintain this key pipeline of talent for both the NDA g…

  • In 2013 we concluded the development of our strategy to remove unirradiated nuclear material from Dounreay and consolidate it at Sellafield.

  • Since the Fukushima Daiichi incident in 2011, the UK has increased its support to Japan, using its experience to assist with decommissioning challenges.

  • MOD and the NDA have both made commitments to work together to manage nuclear liabilities in the national interest.

  • Nick Elliott has been appointed to the NDA Board as a non-executive board member.

  • 14 successful companies have been awarded contracts to come up with innovative approaches to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste.

  • A number of our apprentices have been successful in Awards that took place to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week.

  • We know that removing nuclear waste from our Pile Fuel Cladding Silo is one of our biggest challenges at Sellafield.