Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste

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Services

1. Classify different types of waste

   How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance

2. Hazardous waste

   How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.

3. Hazardous waste consignment note

   A completed consignment note must accompany hazardous waste when moved from any premises.

4. Battery waste: retailer and distributor responsibilities

   Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties

5. Hazardous waste producer registration (Wales)

   Register your premises with Natural Resource Wales if you produce or hold hazardous waste in Wales

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Guidance and regulation

1. Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
   • Detailed guide
   • 2 September 2019
   • Environment Agency
2. The UK's nuclear history
   • Detailed guide
   • 25 January 2018
   • Radioactive Waste Management
3. LLWR Waste Services
   • Detailed guide
   • 21 October 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
4. Waste batteries and accumulators: technical guidance
   • Detailed guide
   • 9 February 2016
   • Environment Agency
5. Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 April 2014
   • Environment Agency

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News and communications

17 January 2020 — News story

Karen Wheeler CBE announced as new Chief Executive of RWM

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Radioactive Waste Management

1. Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) for plutonium
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Case study
2. Role of 3D imaging in managing spent fuel stored under water
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Case study
3. Concrete example of dealing with decommissioning rubble
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Case study
4. Academic research group builds skills for future of decommissioning
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Case study

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Research and statistics

1. Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
   • 30 December 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
2. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
   • 24 October 2019
   • Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
   • Research
3. Managing on-site stockpiling and use of high volumes of concrete-based demolition material
   • 14 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority radioactive waste management strategy consultation: CoRWM response
   • 7 November 2018
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Research
5. Graphene and its use in nuclear decommissioning
   • 13 July 2017
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2020 to 2023
   • 23 December 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 February 2020
2. NDA Radioactive Waste Strategy
   • 16 September 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 31 October 2018
3. National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report
   • 7 August 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 09 October 2018
4. National Policy Statement for Geological Disposal Infrastructure
   • 17 October 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Policy paper
5. Deep borehole disposal: CoRWM position paper
   • 8 August 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Waste Forecasting Form: WSC-FOR-WFO
   • 9 January 2020
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
2. Waste Metric Dashboard: December 2019
   • 7 January 2020
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
3. Direct Research Portfolio Annual Report 2018 to 2019
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Corporate report
4. CoRWM meeting minutes, 9 May 2019
   • 20 December 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Transparency
5. On The Level Issue 22 December 2019
   • 17 December 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
2. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
3. Public Health England
4. Ministry of Defence
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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1. Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
2. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
3. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Northern Ireland Office
6. Office for Product Safety & Standards
7. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
8. UK Export Finance

1. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
2. Radioactive Waste Management
3. Environment Agency
4. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
5. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
6. Sellafield Ltd
7. Magnox Ltd
8. Dounreay
9. Innovate UK
10. Defence Infrastructure Organisation
11. UK Space Agency