Session 003 - Panel: UK - Featured Country: Using Learning and Stakeholder Engagement to Optimise Policy and Strategy: an Update on the UK's Approach to Civil Legacy Clean-Up

The UK's Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy hosted a conversation with its specialist agency tasked with addressing civil legacy clean-up - the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) - and its regulators. The session provided a holistic update on the UK system, recent progress, lessons learnt, and important strategic step-changes such as the move towards an integrated waste management approach. Panelists with presentations: UK Policy/Regulatory Framework (Alastair Findlay, British Government (BEIS) (United Kingdom)); NDA Strategy Update (Clive Nixon, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (United Kingdom)); Policy into Strategy: Risk-informed Integrated Waste Management (James McKinney, NDA (United Kingdom)); Policy into Strategy: Geological Disposal (Martin Walkingshaw, Nuclear Waste Services (United Kingdom))