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: rejected loads guidance
News and communications
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority calls for applicants for its PhD bursaries
- MOX fuel transport arrives safely in Japan
- RWM welcomes Mid Copeland taking next step in GDF process
- Progress in GDF Siting Process: Marine Geophysical Surveys
- CoRWM plenary meeting dates and locations
Research and statistics
- Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England
- Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2020
- Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) reports
- 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
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
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- Waste Metric Dashboard: November 2021
- Geological disposal: scrutiny of RWM's work - annual reports
- Discharges and Environmental Monitoring Annual Report 2020
- National Waste Programme Quarterly Report: Q1 FY 2021 to 2022