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
- GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)
- How to contact us
- Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
- Monitoring radioactivity
News and communications
- Have your say on proposed change to permit conditions at Hinkley Point C
- Nuclear Waste Services launches strategy that will make nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner
- Sellafield’s skills recognised on national stage
- Charging on: vessel installation marks key moment for Sellafield project
- Sellafield clean-up team dives into history
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
- Sizewell C: environmental permits for a new nuclear power station
- Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
- Sizewell C: engagement plan
- Hinkley Point C: contractual documents
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Waste Metric Dashboard: March 2023
- Waste Metric Dashboard: April 2023
- Nuclear Waste Services Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 9th national report