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White Paper on Nuclear Power 2008: Closed Consultations
Consultation on Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report for Proposed National Policy Statement for New Nuclear Power
Consultation on Funded Decommissioning Programme Guidance for New Nuclear Power Stations
Consultation on Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report for Proposed National Policy Statement for New Nuclear Power: 13 March - 21 April 2008
This statutory consultation was on the scope of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for a proposed National Policy Statement (NPS) on planning for new nuclear power stations. It proposed how the SEA will be undertaken, the level and type of information to be covered in the Environmental Report, and how the SEA will be integrated into the development of the proposed Nuclear NPS.
The consultation was intended to seek views from statutory consultees which are the Environment Agency, English Heritage, Natural England, the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland), Scottish Ministers, Historic Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Welsh Assembly Government, Cadw, Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency Wales.
We also consulted the Department of Health, the Health Protection Agency, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Defra and the Industrial and Radiochemical Inspectorate (Northern Ireland) because of their roles in relation to the regulation of nuclear facilities. This was not a public consultation but we will consider any comments from other persons or organisations submitted before the consultation closed on 21 April 2008.
The consultation document, published on 13 March 2008, consists of the following parts. Please note, some of the file sizes for the maps are large and may take longer than usual to download:
- URN 08/680
- URN 08/680AN
(1102KB)Consultation on Funded Decommissioning Programme Guidance for New Nuclear Power Stations: 22 February - 16 May 2008
- URN 08/637
- URN 08/637W
The White Paper on Nuclear Power 2008, published in January 2008, confirmed the Government’s commitment to put in place legislative arrangements to ensure that operators of new nuclear power stations have secure financing arrangements in place to meet the full costs of decommissioning and their full share of waste management costs. Clauses in the Energy Bill 2008 create the framework for this. The Energy Bill will require any operator of a new nuclear power station to have a Funded Decommissioning Programme, approved by the Secretary of State, in place before construction of a new nuclear power station begins and to comply with this programme thereafter.
It was also announced in the Nuclear White Paper that, in parallel with the Energy Bill, the Government would publish for public consultation two sets of draft guidance on what an approvable Funded Decommissioning Programme should contain.
The consultation closed on Friday 16 May 2008.
As part of the consultation, we held two national half-day events – one in London (17th April 2008) and one in Manchester (1st May 2008). The presenters spoke to the following slides at the events: