DECOMMISSIONING IN THE UKAEA

This paper reviews the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in the Un ited Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) over the last ten years. It starts by describing the structural changes in UKAEA that have affe cted the decommissioning programme and its management. The main projec ts at each UKAEA site are then described in turn, indicating the good progress made in the southern sites and the challenging tasks that lie ahead at Windscale and Dounreay. The paper concludes with some commen ts on the estimated costs of the UKAEA's nuclear liabilities, experien ce with management arrangements and a listing of some of the key lesso ns that have been learned over the past ten years.