Lord Rowlands – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Rowlands on 2014-06-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what nuclear power stations there are in the United Kingdom; which of those are being decommissioned; what has been the cost to date of each station; and what is the estimated cost of completion of the decommissioning process.

Baroness Verma

The current and former nuclear power stations designated to NDA are Berkeley, Bradwell, Calder Hall, Chapelcross, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Hunterston A, Oldbury, Sizewell A, Trawsfynydd and Wylfa.

All are being decommissioned with the exception of Wylfa which continues to generate.

The costs of each station since their respective generation end dates, and during the period in which they have been in NDA ownership (since 1 April 2005) have been:

Berkeley £400 million

Bradwell £590 million

Calder Hall £265 million

Chapelcross £490 million

Dungeness A £285 million

Hinkley Point A £370 million

Hunterston A £345 million

Oldbury £72 million

Sizewell A £280 million

Trawsfynydd £540 million

The estimated cost of completion (the remaining lifetime cost) for all of the sites named is £16.5 billion.

EDF / British Energy stations are: Hunterston B, Hinkley Point B, Hartlepool, Heysham 1, Dungeness B, Heysham 2, Torness, Sizewell B.