Sites for submarine dismantling consultations confirmed

17 Oct 2014 02:24 PM

Five UK nuclear facilities have been confirmed as potential sites to store waste from decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines.

A public consultation process will run from 14 November 2014 until 20 February 2015 to help determine which site is selected.

The sites, which already hold radioactive materials, are either owned byMOD, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) or industry. They are:

the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire which are owned by MOD and run by AWE plc
Sellafield in west Cumbria, owned by the NDA
Chapelcross in Dumfriesshire, owned by the NDA
Capenhurst in Cheshire, which is run by Capenhurst Nuclear Services