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
- LLWR Vacancies
- Geological Disposal
- The UK's nuclear history
- Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
News and communications
- RWM welcomes formation of Theddlethorpe GDF Working Group
- 100% of specialist nuclear vessel recycled in a first for UK fleet
- RWM welcomes proposed GDF search area in Allerdale
- Gill wins award for championing menopause conversations
- RWM welcomes proposal for GDF Community Partnerships in Copeland
Research and statistics
- Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England
- Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2020
- Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
- Generic Design Assessment: Summary of disposability assessment for wastes and spent fuel arising from the operation and decommissioning of UK HPR1000
- Large waste transport container summary report NDA/RWM/168
Policy papers and consultations
- Lillyhall landfill site: radioactive substances activities permit variation
- Environment Agency charge proposals from October 2021
- RWM Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2020 to 2021
- Magnox Inquiry and Review into the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA): responses from government and NDA
- Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM): programme of work 2021
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Waste Metric Dashboard: September 2021
- NDA value framework: how we make decisions
- CoRWM meeting minutes, 19 May 2021
- Direct Research Portfolio Annual Report 2019 to 2020
- Low Level Waste Repository Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)