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
• GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)
  • Detailed guide
  • 31 January 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
• How to contact us
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 January 2006
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 October 2020
  • Environment Agency
• Monitoring radioactivity
  • Detailed guide
  • 24 February 2023
  • Environment Agency, UK Health Security Agency, and Food Standards Agency

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News and communications

• Have your say on proposed change to permit conditions at Hinkley Point C
  • 25 April 2023
  • Environment Agency
  • Press release
• Nuclear Waste Services launches strategy that will make nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner
  • 25 April 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • News story
• Sellafield’s skills recognised on national stage
  • 31 March 2023
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• Charging on: vessel installation marks key moment for Sellafield project
  • 30 March 2023
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• Sellafield clean-up team dives into history
  • 29 March 2023
  • Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 26 April 2023
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Research
• GDF Programme Sustainability
  • 6 February 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Research
• GDF Bibliography Summary 2007 to 2021
  • 25 January 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services and Closed organisation: Radioactive Waste Management
  • Research
• WPS/300/05 Specification for Waste Packages Containing Low Heat Generating Waste Part D - Container Specific Requirements
  • 21 December 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Research
• Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2021
  • 17 November 2022
  • Environment Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2023 to 2026 for consultation
  • 21 April 2023
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 06 February 2023
• Sizewell C: environmental permits for a new nuclear power station
  • 28 March 2023
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 25 September 2022
• Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
  • 10 October 2022
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 01 December 2019
• Sizewell C: engagement plan
  • 28 March 2023
  • Environment Agency
  • Policy paper
• Hinkley Point C: contractual documents
  • 29 November 2022
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Waste Metric Dashboard: March 2023
  • 5 May 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Corporate report
• Waste Metric Dashboard: April 2023
  • 5 May 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Corporate report
• Nuclear Waste Services Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
  • 5 May 2023
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
  • 25 April 2023
  • Dounreay
  • Corporate report
• Compliance with the Convention on Nuclear Safety Obligations: 9th national report
  • 25 April 2023
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Ministry of Defence
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board

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• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• UK Health Security Agency
• Cabinet Office
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• Department for Business & Trade
• Northern Ireland Office
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Planning Inspectorate
• UK Export Finance

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Nuclear Waste Services
• Environment Agency
• Sellafield Ltd
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Magnox Ltd
• Dounreay
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• UK Space Agency