Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste
Services
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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
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Hazardous waste
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
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Hazardous waste consignment note
A completed consignment note must accompany hazardous waste when moved from any premises.
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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
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Pollution inventory reporting form
Form for operators to report pollution inventory (PI) data.
Guidance and regulation
- Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
- Geological Disposal - a programme like no other
- GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)
- Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
- How to contact us
News and communications
- CoRWM plenary meeting dates and locations
- Joint statement on international collaboration on cleaning up nuclear legacy sites
- Green rating shows confidence in Sellafield infrastructure delivery
- NWS champions apprentices in the nuclear decommissioning sector
- Nuclear Waste Services announces changes to Management Board
Research and statistics
- Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
- GDF Programme Sustainability
- GDF Bibliography Summary 2007 to 2021
- WPS/300/05 Specification for Waste Packages Containing Low Heat Generating Waste Part D - Container Specific Requirements
- Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2023 to 2026 for consultation
- Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
- Sizewell C: environmental permits for a new nuclear power station
- Hinkley Point C: contractual documents
- Sizewell C: engagement plan
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Civil Nuclear Police Authority framework document
- UK Radioactive Waste and Material Inventory 2022
- Waste Metric Dashboard: January 2023
- CoRWM meeting minutes, 30 June 2022
- CoRWM meeting minutes, 15 March 2022