Written evidence to be reported to the House
Energy Bill
12:00 pm
Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet, Labour)
Clause 41 requires a costed programme of decommissioning to be submitted when you apply to build a new nuclear plant. First, are you all content that the framing of that clause and associated clauses is sufficiently comprehensive to ensure that the programme is robust? Secondly, what are the industry and the regulatory side doing to ensure that you understand what will be involved in that decommissioning, and the costs involved? Thirdly, what efforts are you taking to ensure that you are learning from international experience, in order to ensure that that costed programme is robust?
Last, but not least, in so far as the regulator will have to oversee the process, and as you are probably pretty stretched at the moment looking at safety cases and given the relatively small number of people that you employ, what level of your resources are you going to put into making sure that the decommissioning plans are robust and well costed?