Source · Select Committees · Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Recommendation 59
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Acknowledged
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Establish a long-term plan to expand NDA's international decommissioning work and monitor UK service.
Recommendation
The NDA should establish, with the involvement of government, a long-term plan to expand this international work while monitoring a thorough and dependable service within the UK.
Government Response Summary
The government states the NDA already engages internationally and will continue to work with the NDA to consider how its international capabilities might be enhanced. The NDA will also continue to explore opportunities for international collaboration and best practice sharing.
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282
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The NDA already engage with other nations across the world including the provision of support to Japan with respect to the decommissioning challenges at the Fukashima Daiichi site. We will continue to work with the NDA to consider how the organisation might enhance their international capabilities. In the meantime, the NDA will continue to explore opportunities to work with international counterparts, sharing best practice through the suite of co-operation agreements and memoranda of understanding that it holds with equivalent authorities across the globe, as well as through its participation in expert technical groups and working parties of international organisations, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency.