Development of a National M and O Contractor Work Prioritisation Process and its Use as a Progress Measure for Nuclear Clean Up in the United Kingdom
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Pelham House, Calderbridge, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1DB (United Kingdom)
In July 2004, Her Majesty's Government established a Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to assume responsibility for the discharge of the vast majority of the United Kingdom's public sector civil nuclear liabilities. The Energy Act of 2004 outlines in greater detail how the NDA functions, what its responsibilities are, and how these fit into the overall structure of the UK programme for managing and disposing of the liabilities created by a significant element of the UK's early commercial and nuclear weapons activities. The amount of Government funding provided to the NDA will be a key factor in determining what can be achieved. In agreeing how the funds are distributed to the licensed sites, the NDA will need to keep in mind the 'guiding principles' stated in 'Managing the Nuclear Legacy - A Strategy for Action': - Focus on getting the job done to high safety, security and environmental standards; - Best value for money consistent with safety, security and environmental performance; - Openness and transparency. To satisfy these requirements there is a need for a transparent process for justifying and prioritising work that aids decisions about what should be done and when, is straightforward to understand and can be applied by a wide range of stakeholders. To develop such a process, a multi-stakeholder group (the 'Prioritisation Working Group') produced a report published in April 2005 that examined how the process would align with the NDA's overall management processes. It also identified six criteria or 'attributes' that should be taken into account, and a variety of measures, or 'metrics' that could be used to assess each attribute. The report formed the basis of preliminary guidance from NDA to the site licensees that was used to guide their submissions on plans and programmes of work in 2005. Since this report the NDA has been working, with stakeholder input, to develop a prioritisation process to be used during the production of future Life Cycle Baseline (LCBL) and Near Term Work Plan (NTWP) submissions. This paper describes: - The key attributes chosen to address the selection criteria important to various stakeholder groups; - The methodology selected for ranking and weighing the relative importance of each proposed activity; - The linkage between the decision-making processes at the national and site-specific levels with the NDA's annual planning cycles; - The stakeholder engagement activities undertaken to ensure that the process will operate in an open and transparent manner; - The proposed methods by which this process will not only assist in the early selection of the highest priority work, but also will facilitate the annual management of the portfolio of activities being performed at each site; and - The status of actions to institutionalise these processes into the formal procedures for future NDA work planning and progress measurement. Further information can be obtained from the NDA web site www.nda.gov.uk. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 13023, Tucson, AZ, 85732-3023 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21210714
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--09-WM-06452
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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