Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste

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Services

• 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

• Hazardous waste

  How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.

• Hazardous waste consignment note

  A completed consignment note must accompany hazardous waste when moved from any premises.

• 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

• 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

• LLWR Vacancies
  • Notice
  • 3 September 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 September 2019
  • Environment Agency
• How to contact us
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 January 2006
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Geological Disposal
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 November 2020
  • Radioactive Waste Management
• Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 October 2020
  • Environment Agency

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News and communications

• RWM brings together the top academic experts from across the UK
  • 15 September 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• Why geological disposal is necessary
  • 8 September 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• RWM response to Hartlepool reports
  • 6 August 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• RWM looking at GDF in Lincolnshire
  • 26 July 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• Major projects progress is transforming Sellafield’s skyline
  • 26 July 2021
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 3 August 2021
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• Generic Design Assessment: Summary of disposability assessment for wastes and spent fuel arising from the operation and decommissioning of UK HPR1000
  • 11 June 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Research
• Large waste transport container summary report NDA/RWM/168
  • 18 May 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Research
• Magnox Inquiry: final report
  • 4 March 2021
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Independent report
• Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
  • 5 November 2020
  • Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Food Standards Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Lillyhall landfill site: radioactive substances activities permit variation
  • 20 July 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 15 April 2019
• Environment Agency charge proposals from October 2021
  • 16 July 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 10 September 2021
• RWM Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2020 to 2021
  • 6 September 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Policy paper
• Magnox Inquiry and Review into the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA): responses from government and NDA
  • 20 July 2021
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, UK Government Investments, and Cabinet Office
  • Policy paper
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM): programme of work 2021
  • 9 June 2021
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Low Level Waste Repository Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
  • 15 September 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Magnox Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
  • 15 September 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd and Magnox Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Sellafield Ltd Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
  • 15 September 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd and Sellafield Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Waste Metric Dashboard: August 2021
  • 31 August 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Waste Metric Dashboard: July 2021
  • 2 August 2021
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Public Health England
• Ministry of Defence
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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• Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
• Cabinet Office
• Northern Ireland Office
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• UK Export Finance

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Radioactive Waste Management
• Environment Agency
• Sellafield Ltd
• Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Magnox Ltd
• Dounreay
• Innovate UK
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• UK Space Agency