National Audit Office report on Investigation into submarine defueling and dismantling

Wednesday, 3 April 2019 00:01

Despite a government commitment from over 20 years ago to dispose of its radioactive waste as soon as reasonably practicable, the Ministry of Defence (the Department) has not yet disposed of any of the 20 submarines it has decommissioned since 1980.  The Department now stores twice as many submarines as it operates, with seven having been in storage for longer than they were in service. It first aimed to have a disposal process that would operateby 2011 but now estimates to...Request free trial