UK’s nuclear sites costing taxpayers ‘astronomical sums’, say MPs
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#5AXMH)
Public accounts committee says ignorance, incompetence and weak oversight to blame
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a perpetual lack of knowledge about the state and location of waste on the 17 sites it is responsible for making safe, a powerful committee of MPs has found.
This results from decades of poor record keeping and weak government oversight, the MPs said. Combined with a sorry saga" of incompetence and failure, this has left taxpayers footing the bill for astronomical sums", they said.
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