Watchdog slams nuclear cleanup contract that cost public £122m

Contract to dispose of material from 12 sites went ‘wrong on a fundamental level’ and led to multimillion pound payoutsThe government agency responsible for mishandling a major nuclear cleanup contract – costing the state more than £122m – has been severely criticised by Whitehall’s spending watchdog.A National Audit Office inquiry into a bungled £6.2bn contract to dispose of material from 12 different nuclear sites has questioned whether the Nuclear Dec