Recommendation 15

In September 2019, the NDA’s Magnox contract with CFP ended following a two- year run off period, and the 12 sites transferred to the NDA under the management of its subsidiary, Magnox Ltd.27 Under the previous model, the NDA essentially outsourced management and oversight of nuclear sites to the private sector. The NDA described 22 PAC’s report, summary para 4 23 Q 44 24 Qq 45, 48 25 Q 48 26 Qq 57, 65 -67, 69 27 C&AG’s Report, para 1.8 14 The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s management of the Magnox contract its intention to bring all of its major sites within its control rather than running them through a private sector consortium, with Dounreay in Scotland and the Low Level Waste Repository in west Cumbria being the last two major sites to be transferred to the NDA’s management upon completion of those contracts’ 12 month run-off periods. The NDA set out a number of potential advantages to the change in delivery model, including operating the sites as a family or federation of businesses and sharing lessons between sites more effectively. The NDA also said it intends to apply lessons from its experience of the run-off period from the Magnox contract to the remaining sites.28