The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and EDF today announce the start of the disposal process for land adjacent to nuclear sites at Wylfa in Anglesey, Bradwell in Essex and Oldbury in Gloucestershire. The process will be managed by the NDA.

Four separate lots are for sale in this process:

• The land at Wylfa, adjacent to an operating Magnox nuclear power station currently scheduled to close in March 2010
• The land at Oldbury, adjacent to an operating Magnox nuclear power station currently scheduled to close in December 2008, The NDA also owns a substantial area of land in the estuary including a tidal reservoir.
• The land at Bradwell, adjacent to a Magnox nuclear power station currently being decommissioned.

It is intended that the auction will be held in the first quarter of 2009