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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

  8 February 2018

  Environment Agency

• Hazardous waste: consignee returns guidance (England)

  Detailed guide

  9 February 2018

  Environment Agency

• LLWR Waste Services

  Detailed guide

  30 May 2018

  Low Level Waste Repository Ltd

• Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 April 2014
  • Environment Agency
• Civil nuclear regulation if there’s no Brexit deal
  • Guidance
  • 23 August 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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News and communications

17 October 2018 — News story

Green GB Week sees Magnox’s double platinum jubilee

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox Ltd

1. Members of LLWR workforce collect prestigious health and safety accolade
   • 5 October 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
2. Collaborative decommissioning research TRANSCENDS the individual approach
   • 24 September 2018
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
3. LLWR's largest logistics project for 5 years saves valuable space at Repository
   • 6 September 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
4. Dennis Thompson to step down as Managing Director of LLWR
   • 3 September 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 23 July 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• Graphene and its use in nuclear decommissioning
  • 13 July 2017
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Independent report
• Geological disposal and working with communities: public dialogue and literature review
  • 13 April 2017
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• The early stages of implementing geological disposal: regulatory use of geoscientific information
  • 28 March 2017
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Discharges from boiling water reactors: review of discharge data
  • 20 July 2016
  • Environment Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report 5 September 2018

  Environment Agency

  Closed consultation

  Date closed 09 October 2018

• NDA radioactive waste management strategy 30 July 2018

  Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

  Open consultation

  Closing date 31 October 2018

• GDA of Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd’s UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor 25 June 2018

  Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 03 March 2017

• Guidance on requirements for release of nuclear sites from radioactive substances regulation
  • 20 April 2018
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 09 May 2016
• Euratom exit: factsheets
  • 18 June 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Waste Metric Dashboard September 2018
  • 5 October 2018
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) - our publication scheme
  • 3 October 2018
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Transparency
• CoRWM visit to Konrad mine, Germany, June 2018
  • 2 October 2018
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Transparency
• CoRWM meeting minutes, 21 June 2018
  • 2 October 2018
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Transparency
• On The Level Issue 17 September 2018
  • 17 September 2018
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
2. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
3. Ministry of Defence
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board

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1. Public Health England
2. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
3. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Northern Ireland Office
6. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
7. UK Export Finance

1. Environment Agency
2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
3. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
4. Radioactive Waste Management
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
7. Magnox Ltd
8. Innovate UK
9. Dounreay
10. Defence Infrastructure Organisation