2023 Report details for project: Geological Disposal Facility Programme (GDF)
| Project name | Geological Disposal Facility Programme (GDF) - there are 11 reports for this project: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | DESNZ (DX01) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2023 (data is from September 2022) |
| Category | Infrastructure - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The primary objective of the programme is to site and construct a permanent geological disposal facility (GDF) as the safe, secure and environmentally responsible solution to the long term management of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK excluding Scotland. A GDF is the internationally agreed and only viable permanent answer to the UK's existing legacy of Highly radioactive waste. As a nationally significant infrastructure programme a GDF will also provide an opportunity to sustainability boost the economy of the host region and local community to transform itself for many generations. The programme also supports the delivery of the UK's nuclear new build programme as the Government needs to be satisfied that effective arrangements exist or will exist to manage and dispose of the wastes they will produce before development consents for new nuclear power stations are granted. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the DCA rating at 22/23-Q4 remained at Amber (IPA rating). This is primarily due to the following factors.Departmental narrative on schedule |
| Start date | 2008-06-30 |
| End date | 2050-03-31 |
| Schedule text | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 increased from 2040-12-31 to 2050-03-31. This is primarily due to the following factors.Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 increased from 2040-12-31 to 2050-03-31. This is primarily due to the following factors. The indicative project end date is that given for the first emplacement of legacy radioactive waste in the facility, aligned to the Tranche 3 sub programme business case; this includes updated timescales in the securing of willing communities, a better understanding of the full scope of work to characterise the sites through the drilling of deep boreholes and associated consents and permissions and a level of schedule risk and uncertainty.It should be noted that the programme continues to face large uncertainties at this stage due to the site selection process; confidence will increase as the potential site locations are down selected and fully characterised. The schedule remains on target for the first key decision point - site down selection in 2026. |
| Baseline | £52.12m |
| Forecast | £66.10m |
| Variance | 27.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. The budget variance exceeds 5%. This is primarily due to the following factors resulting in additional spend in year:1)A case was made to bring forward the seismic survey for Copeland in order to support the site evaluation and characterisation which was completed during the financial year, in addition the opportunity has been taken to procure existing information to further inform site evaluation and characterisation at other sites.2)Ongoing progress of community partnerships and the utilisation of the Community Investment Funding, recovering some of the activities that were constrained due COVID impacts in prior years. |
| Whole Life Cost | £20,300.00m |
| WLCost text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 remained at 20300m. This is primarily due to the following factors.Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 remained at 20300m. This is primarily due to the following factors. The whole life costs align with those approved in the Programme Level Business Case. The WLC costs presented in the GMPP report cover both the HMG and non-HMG costs to the programme and are the lower bound estimate within the business case. The lower bound 20.3bn covers the lower technical complexity of the GDF site construction and includes legacy waste, waste from new nuclear and other potential materials. The upper bound of the business case 53.3bn includes for a higher technical complexity GDF construction site, contingency, optimism bias and uncertainty. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2023.csv |
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