The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has in January 2006 confirmed that the financial cost of cleaning up after the current nuclear power stations (after they have been closed down) will exceed £60bn or £800 for every citizen in the UK.
The cost will be spread over 150 years, until in 2150 the Drigg plant in Cumbria, the last reactor to operate, is expected to stop energy production.
Current NDA estimate shown below for each of the UK's 20 remaining nuclear power stations:
Sellafield, Cumbria
Close 2150; Clean up cost
£31.5bn
Dounreay, Caithness
Close No date; Clean up cost £2.9bn
Springfields,
Preston
Close 2031; Clean up cost £2.8bn
Wylfa Power Station,
Anglesey
Close 2125; Clean up cost £1.7bn
Chapelcross, Dumfriesshire
Close
2128; Clean up cost £1.7bn
Oldbury, Gloucestershire
Close 2118;
Clean up cost £1.4bn
Calder Hall, Sellafield, Cumbria
Close 2117;
Clean up cost £1.3bn
Drigg, Holmrook, Cumbria
Close 2150; Clean
up cost £1.3bn
Hunterston, Ayrshire
Close 2090; Clean up cost
£1.2bn
Sizewell A, Suffolk
Close 2110; Clean up cost £1.2bn
Dungeness A, Romney Marsh, Kent
Close 2111; Clean up cost £1.2bn
Trawsfynydd,
Gwynedd
Close 2096; Clean up cost £1.1bn
Bradwell Power Station,
Essex
Close 2103; Clean up cost £1.1bn
Hinkley Point A, Somerset
Close
2104; Clean up cost £1.1bn
Capenhurst, Cheshire
Close 2120; Clean
up cost £1,100m
Harwell, Didcot, Oxon
Close 2025; Clean up cost
£918m
Berkeley, Gloucestershire
Close 2083; Clean up cost £823m
Windscale,
Cumbria
Close 2065; Clean up cost £670m
Winfrith, Dorchester,
Dorset
Close 2018; Clean up cost £461m
Joint European Torus, Oxfordshire
Close
2022; Clean up cost £196m
