The escalating final cost of cleaning up hazardous waste at the nuclear site at Sellafield is still uncertain, as UK Government officials and the site’s owners and managers cannot guarantee when costs will plateau.
Last year, Parliament’s public accounts committee criticised the management of Sellafield for huge cost overuns, project delays and expensive staff.
The cost estimate of cleaning up hazardous waste at Sellafield reached £53billion in February, up £5billion from March last year, and is expected to rise above £70billion.
The public accounts committee, which scrutinises whether taxpayers’ money is spent wisely, has asked the government, site owner the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd and former manager Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) whether costs will continue to rise.
The business plan for Sellafield is expected to last for 120 years, reflecting the complexity and technical uncertainty of the site.
NMP, which consists of France’s Areva, US firm Aecom and Britain’s Amec, has managed Sellafield since 2008 but Britain’s NDA, which owns Sellafield, stripped it of the multi-billion pound contract in January after concerns about performance.
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