The NDA told us about some notable achievements in relation to the decommissioning of the Magnox sites to date: for example, all 26 Magnox reactors have now been defueled, and all the fuel taken to Sellafield for safekeeping, thereby reducing by over 95% the radioactivity on the Magnox sites;18 and in Chapelcross in south-west Scotland, the NDA had overseen the largest asbestos clean-up in Europe, with thousands of tonnes of asbestos cleaned up across turbine halls, heat exchangers, and the w...

The NDA told us about some notable achievements in relation to the decommissioning of the Magnox sites to date: for example, all 26 Magnox reactors have now been defueled, and all the fuel taken to Sellafield for safekeeping, thereby reducing by over 95% the radioactivity on the Magnox sites;18 and in Chapelcross in south-west Scotland, the NDA had overseen the largest asbestos clean-up in Europe, with thousands of tonnes of asbestos cleaned up across turbine halls, heat exchangers, and the whole industrial complex.19 It also told us about new technologies being developed by the UK nuclear industry such as an innovative robot which was develo Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Response status: not_addressed