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
   • 8 February 2018
   • Environment Agency
2. Site Evaluation consultations - public events
   • Detailed guide
   • 28 February 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
3. The nuclear sector and preparing for EU Exit
   • Detailed guide
   • 14 March 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
4. LLWR Waste Services
   • Detailed guide
   • 18 December 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
5. Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 April 2014
   • Environment Agency

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News and communications

21 March 2019 — News story

Sellafield unveils new plant to support clean-up

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd

1. Preferred bidders selected for Sellafield project partnership
   • 15 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
   • Press release
2. CoRWM and Radioactive Waste Management meeting with Waseda University
   • 8 March 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story
3. Sellafield’s ‘locked vault’ ready to be emptied
   • 8 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
   • Press release
4. LLWR apprentices step up to help paint homeless hostel
   • 7 March 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Managing on-site stockpiling and use of high volumes of concrete-based demolition material
   • 14 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report
2. Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
   • 10 January 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
3. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority radioactive waste management strategy consultation: CoRWM response
   • 7 November 2018
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Research
4. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
   • 25 October 2018
   • Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
   • 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. Lillyhall landfill site: RSA Permit Variation
   • 5 March 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 15 April 2019
2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2019 to 2022
   • 7 February 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 04 February 2019
3. Site Evaluation - How we will evaluate sites in Wales
   • 1 February 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 April 2019
4. Euratom and the dimensions of interest to Scotland upon the UK’s withdrawal from the EU
   • 26 February 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Policy paper
5. Why geological disposal? CoRWM position paper
   • 25 January 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Regulatory Interface Management (RIM) group
   • 14 March 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Corporate report
2. Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
   • 12 March 2019
   • Dounreay
   • Corporate report
3. Waste Metric Dashboard: February 2019
   • 6 March 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
4. New nuclear power stations: initial assessment of General Nuclear System’s UK HPR1000 design
   • 20 February 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Corporate report
5. Customer Notice: 2019-001 Waste Forecasting Submissions January 2019
   • 28 January 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. Environment Agency
3. Radioactive Waste Management
4. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
5. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
6. Sellafield Ltd
7. Magnox Ltd
8. Dounreay
9. Innovate UK
10. Defence Infrastructure Organisation