A report by MPs Warned that one of Britain’s most dangerous buildings may continue to leak radioactive water well in the 2050s, such as Efforts on Sellafield Struggle to maintain speed.
The Commons Public Account Committee (PAC) released a report on Wednesday, which criticized the slow progress of the declaration work nuclear power plants“Failure, cost overran, and continuous safety, citing concerns”.
PAC President Sir Geoffrey Clift-Brown accepted “signs of reform” but insisted that Sellafield Continues “unbearable risk”.
He said that the scale of the decomitioning project makes it difficult to reduce the urgency and cost of safety hazards.
He said, “Every day in Sailfield is a race against time to complete the works before buildings reach the end of their lives,” he said that the report indicates the Selfield risks that lose this race.
Magnox is described by Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS), Nuclear The Dicology Authority (NDA) as “the most dangerous building in the UK”, highlights these risks. Since 2018, MSSS is leaking radioactive water into the ground, releasing enough water to fill an Olympic swimming pool every three years.
This leak is expected to remain until the oldest portion of the building is not evacuated in the 2050s, compared to the initiative almost a decade later.
Pointing to the fact that Salefield Limited had recalled most of its annual goals to recover waste from buildings including MSS, the committee warned: “The result of this underperformance is that buildings are likely to be extremely dangerous for a long time.”
The NDA has admitted that the leakage is its “biggest environmental issue”, and a spokesperson said it was “our top priority” to manage and recover the waste from the MSSS.
He said: “As the report says, Magnox Swarf Storage Silo has a leakage and does not pose a risk for the public. Regulators accept that the current plan to deal with leakage is the most effective.”
Sir Geoffri said: “It is important that the government understood the daily urgency of the work to be done in the SAILFild, and shed any spirit of a distant date of completion, for which no one is currently alive.
“Cellfield’s risks and challenges are of the present time.
“There are some initial signs of some reforms in the delivery of Sailfield, which note our reports. The government should not represent more than a false morning to ensure that everyone immediately rescue accountable, and to keep both public purse and public better.”
Sailfield stopped generating electricity in 2003 and in addition to cleaning the site, now processes and store atomic waste from power plants around the UK.
In the long term, the government plans to create an underground geological settlement facility (GDF) to store nuclear waste for thousands of years that will take safe to be safe.
But the committee said that there is a delay in creating GDF, which is no longer expected to be done by the end of the 2050s, which means more storage features were required for Sailfield.
NDA Chief Executive Officer David Pitty said that he welcomed the PAC investigation and consider how to address its recommendations.
He said: “We take the conclusions seriously and the safety of the site and the good of our people will always be our highest priorities.
“As mentioned by the committee, SAILFILD is the most complex and challenging nuclear site in the UK. We are happy that they recognize the improvement in distributing major projects and we are securely getting waste from all four highest threats.
“With the support of our employees, their representatives, community and stakeholders, we are committed to extending better performance and continue to distribute the important missions at our national level safe, safe and continuously.”
At the same time, to criticize the delay in conducting cleaning and call for an overhaul to work for the site, the PAC expressed concern that there was a “sub-best culture” in the Sailfield.
The committee pointed to 16 non-repatriation agreements signed by SAILFILD Limited in the last 16 years, and in its annual report called to publish information about the prevalence and perception of bullying.
The NDA spokesperson said: “We are committed to an open and respectable culture and we have taken decisive action to enable it, including strengthening our whistleblowing policy.
“Evidence suggests that reforms are working and the report accepts improvement in the results of the survey of employees in recent years, but we are never decency and will continue to try to ensure the NDA group to ensure that everyone feels respected and strong that to raise the issues, knowing that they will be worked properly.
“As the report notes, it is one of the terms of the Sellafield’s atomic site license, in which there is a strong process for reporting security issues and the independent nuclear regulator has given the site a green rating to compliance.”