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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Hazardous waste producer registration (Wales)
Register your premises with Natural Resource Wales if you produce or hold hazardous waste in Wales
Guidance and regulation
- Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
- Nuclear Waste Services vacancies
- How to contact us
- Hazardous waste: rejected loads guidance
- Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
- Nuclear emergencies: information for the public
- Nuclear Waste Services – Research at Nuclear Waste Services
- Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2020
- Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England
Policy papers and consultations
- Sizewell C: environmental permits for a new nuclear power station
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2022 to 2025 for consultation
- Environment Agency's engagement plan for geological disposal
- Sizewell C: engagement plan
- Towards fusion energy: CoRWM response to BEIS consultation
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- Waste Metric Dashboard: July 2022
- Nuclear Waste Services Annual Review 2021-22 Summary
- Nuclear Waste Services Annual Review 2021-22
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022