Bradwell-on-Sea identified as potential site to dump radioactive waste

Bradwell Power Station

Aerial view of the power station.

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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority proposes use of Essex site to store intermediate level waste until 2040

• Terry Macalister
• The Guardian, Sunday 16 June 2013 15.25 EDT

The nuclear power station in Bradwell-on-Sea closed in 2002 and is being decommissioned. Photograph: Steve Morgan/Alamy

When it comes to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the only way is Essex. Bradwell-on-Sea has been identified as a possible site to dump radioactive waste.
"Everybody was aghast when a local representative from the NDA stated that the possibility was being looked into," Brian Beale, a district councillor for Maldon, told the Essex Chronicle. "To say this could happen when it had always been understood that Bradwell was not intended to be a site for waste, created uproar."
Nuclear materials are already being stored at Bradwell, a former nuclear power station that closed in 2002 and is being decommissioned. The operating company, Magnox Electric, was fined £250,000 in 2009 for presiding over a radioactive leak that had gone undetected for 14 years.


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