Cant remember the last time I had a bonus that was £50 to £85K like the NDA bonus, had I or my collegues recieved a couple of those we need not have done a night shift let alone sleep on one (at the peril of losing your job)& could have set up our own gyn sorry gymn.

This is nothing new as the jobs and the bonuses were advertised in this Whitehaven News so we only had to do the maths. I did apply to the NDA but was unsuccessful however, remember you get what you pay for and these are not un-skilled process workers.

How can NDA save 450m? If its true then well done from a tax payer. I do think that the Sellafield bonus which is massive compared to that of the NDA is a joke as you dont need to contribute to this in any way. Just just go to your Gyn you have set up in a store room or have a sleep on night shift if you can't be bothered (and yes it does still happen)

Absolutely ridiculous. Staff at Sellafield are awarded bonuses in the "hundreds of £££'s" area and are overjoyed. Why do the NDA staff need 20-30% of what is already a good salary?

The bonuses paid to NDA staff appear quite disproportionate to their achievements to date. The claim that £450 millions has been saved is welcome but this should be compared with the repeated annual increase in decommissioning cost estimates that have routinely ramped up by tens of billions of pounds. The NDA seems to have established some kind of organisation that mirrors the Sellafield organisation and will result in non-valued added duplication and associated extra cost. The claim that large bonuses are needed to attract high quality staff is not believable as many organisations manage to do this quite successfully! We look forward to the tangible results delivered by the NDA's high quality staff.
The NDA is merely a quango funded by the ever suffering tax payer. Its role needs to be reassessed and the organisation pruned in size to make it more appropriate for the actual work it does. Unfortunately the NDA is taking advantage of the common habit of equating a link with "nuclear" to a justification that this warrants high pay. Many of the jobs in the NDA will be similar to those in other organisations who do not feel the need to award excessive bonuses.
The UK has never been successful with its quangos and strategic authorities which have always tended to exhibit the worst characteristics of the "gravy train" culture.

The need to retain quality staff is not correct - there are more 'quality' staff out there to be had and plenty of them too - the NDA just need to open up their eyes and their competition needs to be opened up so it is not a monopoly! For a government department - it is a disgraceful waste of money - Copeland area should not be bought just from NDA money it will poke them in the face...can I ask who saved them £450 million, was it particularly their own staff, or was it those who slaved for them?

Is there any jobs garn there for me?