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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Pollution inventory reporting form
Form for operators to report pollution inventory (PI) data.
Guidance and regulation
- Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
- LLWR Vacancies
- How to contact us
- The UK's nuclear history
- Geological Disposal
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
- Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
- Accelerating implementation of a geological disposal facility in the United Kingdom
- Operational safety review, Torness nuclear power station, 2019
- Nuclear and radiological safety: review of the UK framework 2019
Policy papers and consultations
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2021 to 2024
- NDA Radioactive Waste Strategy
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Draft Strategy for Consultation
- Generic design assessment of the UK HPR1000: consultation plan
- Environment Agency's engagement plan for geological disposal
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Waste Metric Dashboard: December 2020
- CoRWM meeting minutes, 15 September 2020
- On The Level Issue 26 December 2020
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- FOI 01168 – Copper and steel quantities required for GDF