Jamie Reed – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2016-02-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether new storage facilities will be required at Sellafield to accommodate additional spent fuel arising from the life extension of nuclear reactors.
Andrea Leadsom
No. The strategy of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is to complete the THORP reprocessing contracts it has with EDF Energy. In delivering the current strategy the NDA will have created sufficient space to receive and manage all the AGR fuel from EDF Energy’s AGR power stations, which avoids having to build additional storage capacity for AGR fuel.
