Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste

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Services

1. 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

2. Hazardous waste

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

3. Hazardous waste consignment note

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

4. 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

5. 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

1. Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
   • Detailed guide
   • 8 February 2018
   • Environment Agency
2. Communities and GDF
   • Detailed guide
   • 16 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
3. National Geological Screening for a GDF
   • Detailed guide
   • 16 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
4. Hazardous waste: consignee returns guidance (England)
   • Detailed guide
   • 9 February 2018
   • Environment Agency
5. Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 April 2014
   • Environment Agency

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News and communications

18 January 2019 — News story

Landmark 1,000th waste shipment achieved in record time

Low Level Waste Repository Ltd

1. Welsh Government launches policy to deal with radioactive waste
   • 16 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story
2. Gosforth youngsters prepare for Lego League challenge with LLWR presentation
   • 16 January 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
3. Robots tackle Sellafield’s notorious radioactive ‘hot spot’
   • 16 January 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
   • News story
4. Government launches new policy to deal with radioactive waste
   • 20 December 2018
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
   • 10 January 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority radioactive waste management strategy consultation: CoRWM response
   • 7 November 2018
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Research
3. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
   • 25 October 2018
   • Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
   • Research
4. Graphene and its use in nuclear decommissioning
   • 13 July 2017
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report
5. Geological disposal and working with communities: public dialogue and literature review
   • 13 April 2017
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Gwerthuso Safleoedd - Sut byddwn yn gwerthuso safleoedd - Nghymru
   • 16 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 April 2019
2. Site Evaluation - How we will evaluate sites in Wales
   • 16 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 14 April 2019
3. Site Evaluation - How we will evaluate sites in England
   • 20 December 2018
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 31 March 2019
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2019 to 2022
   • 3 December 2018
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 04 February 2019
5. Implementing geological disposal – working with communities: long term management of higher activity radioactive waste
   • 19 December 2018
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Radioactive Waste Management: Organisation Chart
   • 18 January 2019
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Transparency
2. Waste Metric Dashboard December 2018
   • 9 January 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
3. On The Level Issue 18 December 2018
   • 20 December 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
4. TC03 – Third Height IP-2 ISO Container
   • 20 December 2018
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
5. TC01 – Half Height IP-2 ISO Container
   • 20 December 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. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
2. Environment Agency
3. Radioactive Waste Management
4. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
5. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
6. Sellafield Ltd
7. Magnox Ltd
8. Dounreay
9. Innovate UK
10. Defence Infrastructure Organisation