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  • Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance

    What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • How to contact us

    Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.

    • From: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
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  • GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)

    A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Radioactive substances legislation: scope and exemptions

    Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 4 others
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  • The UK's nuclear history

    Putting geological disposal into context

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing

    Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Non-nuclear RSR: environmental permits

    Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export

    Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Hazardous waste: rejected loads guidance

    When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • The Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004: guidance on their application and administration

    Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
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  • Sellafield: nuclear regulation

    How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Nuclear sites RSR: environmental permits

    Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Radioactive substances regulation (RSR) guidance

    This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
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  • Monitoring radioactivity

    Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.

    • From: Environment Agency and 2 others
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  • Sizewell: nuclear regulation

    Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Geological Disposal - a programme like no other

    Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Regulatory controls for radiation protection in the UK

    Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 3 others
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  • How to contact Nuclear Waste Services

    Where and how to contact Nuclear Waste Services

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Waste Services

    We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniq…

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • RSR generic developed principles: regulatory assessment

    Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.

    • From: Environment Agency
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