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

• Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 September 2019
  • Environment Agency
• LLWR Vacancies
  • Notice
  • 18 November 2020
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• Geological Disposal
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 November 2020
  • Radioactive Waste Management
• The UK's nuclear history
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 January 2018
  • Radioactive Waste Management
• Shipping radioactive sources between the UK and EU from 1 January 2021
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 March 2019
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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News and communications

• NDA develops ground-breaking programme for waste management
  • 24 November 2020
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story
• Game Changers projects hit record high
  • 24 November 2020
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• Sellafield’s COVID-19 test centre to expand
  • 20 November 2020
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• National recognition for project delivery at Sellafield
  • 17 November 2020
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• Sellafield logistics provider wins two safety awards
  • 16 November 2020
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
  • 5 November 2020
  • Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Food Standards Agency
  • Research
• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 9 October 2020
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• Accelerating implementation of a geological disposal facility in the United Kingdom
  • 29 July 2020
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Research
• Operational safety review, Torness nuclear power station, 2019
  • 9 July 2020
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Independent report
• Nuclear and radiological safety: review of the UK framework 2019
  • 9 July 2020
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

• NDA Radioactive Waste Strategy
  • 19 November 2020
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 31 October 2018
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Draft Strategy for Consultation
  • 17 August 2020
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 08 November 2020
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2020 to 2023
  • 27 April 2020
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 14 February 2020
• Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
  • 31 March 2020
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 01 December 2019
• Sizewell C: engagement plan
  • 6 July 2020
  • Environment Agency
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Discharges and Environmental Monitoring Annual Report 2019
  • 24 November 2020
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
  • 19 November 2020
  • Dounreay
  • Corporate report
• Annual Report for 2019 on the operation of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996
  • 18 November 2020
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Corporate report
• Waste Metric Dashboard: October 2020
  • 4 November 2020
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report
• LLW Repository Ltd Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2019/2020
  • 24 September 2020
  • 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
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• 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
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• Magnox Ltd
• Dounreay
• Innovate UK
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• UK Space Agency