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Dear Marianne

Case Ref: 20240827

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 31 January 2024. Your request is being handled under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will respond to you as soon as possible and no later than 28 February 2024.

Please remember to quote the above reference number in any future communications.

Kind regards,

Jo Doran
NDA Information Access Team
Herdus House
Westlakes Science +ACY- Technology Park
Moor Row
CA24 3HU

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Dear Marianne

 

Thank you for your information request received on 24 January 2024, where
you asked the following:

1.   How much money has the NDA/UK Government paid to Fujitsu for the ATOM
contracts for nuclear installations since 2001.

2.  Is ATOM accounting and tracking the Nuclear Inventory for the whole of
the UK Nuclear Wastes.  If not where are the wastes ATOM is accounting and
tracking?

3.  Is ATOM/Fujitsu accounting and tracking the whole of the Nuclear
Inventory for proposed Geological Disposal?

 

Please find below the information that the NDA holds in relation to your
request:

 

1.   How much money has the NDA/UK Government paid to Fujitsu for the ATOM
contracts for nuclear installations since 2001.

The NDA has not contracted with Fujitsu for the ATOM contracts.

 

Magnox Limited (a company registered in England under Company number
02264251), and Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (a company registered in
Scotland under Company number SC307493), now both trading as Nuclear
Restoration Services (NRS), do have ATOM related spend. As a subsidiary of
the NDA they are subject to FOI/EIR legislation in their own right. Please
use this link to submit a request directly to them:
[1][email address]

 

Sellafield Ltd (a company registered in England under Company
number 1002607) also held a contract with Fujitsu prior to 2014, after
which the contract was taken over by National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL). As
a subsidiary of the NDA Sellafield Ltd are subject to FOI/EIR legislation
in their own right. Please use this link to submit a request directly to
them: [2][email address]

 

Further information on submitting an FOI request to NNL is available via
the following link: [3]Freedom of Information - National Nuclear
Laboratory (nnl.co.uk)

 

2a.  Is ATOM accounting and tracking the Nuclear Inventory for the whole
of the UK Nuclear Wastes. 

Please be aware that the NDA group does not manage the whole of the UK
nuclear wastes.

 

The ATOM software is not used for the purpose of developing (including
accounting and tracking) the UK Radioactive Waste and Materials Inventory
(the ‘UK Inventory’).

 

2b. If not where are the wastes ATOM is accounting and tracking?

ATOM is used for accountancy of material at NRS sites. NDA does not hold
the requested information and we suggest that you contact NRS directly via
[4][email address] 

 

3.  Is ATOM/Fujitsu accounting and tracking the whole of the Nuclear
Inventory for proposed Geological Disposal?

The ATOM software is not used for the purpose of developing the Inventory
for Geological Disposal (IGD). FOI requests relating to the IGD should be
forwarded to Radioactive Waste Management (a company registered in England
under Company number 08920190), now trading as Nuclear Waste Services
(NWS). As a subsidiary of the NDA they are subject to FOI/EIR legislation
in their own right. Please use this link to submit a request directly to
NWS: [5][email address]

 

We hope that this information will be helpful to you. If you are unhappy
with the way in which NDA has dealt with your request, you have the right
to require us to review our actions and decisions. If you wish to request
a review, please reply to this email or write to the Information Access
Team at [6][email address] within 40 working days of receipt of this
response.

 

Please remember to quote FOI ref 20240827 in any correspondence about this
request.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you also
have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

 

Kind regards,

 

Jo

 

 

 

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Jo Doran

Information Access Team

NDA

Herdus House

Westlakes Science & Technology Park

Moor Row

CA24 3HU

Tel: 01925 802184

[mobile number]

 

 

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