Departmental spending on nuclear power

BIS ref: 09/1900

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Ref No: 09/1900

22 December 2009

Dear Ms Evans

Thank you for your email of 15 December 2009 requesting information about
Departmental spending on nuclear power.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Colin Mitchell
Department of Energy and Climate Change
3 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2AW

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Ref. FOI 09/1900

Dear Ms Evans

Thank you for your email of 15 December where you requested information
about Departmental spending on nuclear power.

I can confirm that the Department of Energy and Climate Change holds some
of the information you requested. However, the information on
decommissioning is exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA), because the information is accessible to you, as it is already
in the public domain.

In answer to your specific questions I have set out the Department's
response below:

Nuclear research - Recent funding figures were placed in the House of
Commons in March 2009 in answer to a Parliamentary Question. I attach the
Parliamentary Question and the funding figures.

Nuclear construction - the Department did not construct any nuclear power
stations between 2003 and 2010.

Nuclear Maintenance - The Department does not maintain nuclear power
stations.

Nuclear deconstruction - Details of spending on the decommissioning of
nuclear power plants is publicly available in various Annual Reports (AR)
which can be accessed through the web sites listed below:

NDA AR available at:

[1]http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/n...

[2]http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/n...

[3]http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/A...

[4]http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/A...

[5]http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/A...

BNFL AR available at: [6]http://www.bnfl.com/content.php?pageID=70

Shareholder Executive Annual Reports available at:
[7]http://www.shareholderexecutive.gov.uk/p...

UKAEA ARs available at:
[8]http://www.uk-atomic-energy.org.uk/news_...

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Yours sincerely,

Colin Mitchell
Office for Nuclear Development
Department of Energy and Climate Change

3 Whitehall Place

London

SW1A 2AW

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