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

• Pollution inventory reporting form

  Form for operators to report pollution inventory (PI) data.

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Guidance and regulation

• Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 September 2019
  • Environment Agency
• Telexistence Phase 2
  • Notice
  • 18 January 2022
  • Defence and Security Accelerator, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• LLWR Vacancies
  • Notice
  • 18 January 2022
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• Geological Disposal
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 November 2020
  • Radioactive Waste Management
• How to contact us
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 January 2006
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management

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News and communications

• Shipment of intermediate-level waste to Australia departs UK
  • 21 January 2022
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • News story
• £1.3million competition launched to find next Telexistence technology
  • 20 January 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story
• Allerdale GDF Community Partnership forms
  • 18 January 2022
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• NDA announces new date for its group Supply Chain Event 2022
  • 10 January 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story
• NDA postpones annual Supply Chain Event
  • 5 January 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2020
  • 29 December 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England
  • 26 November 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) reports
  • 4 November 2021
  • Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Food Standards Agency
  • Research
• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 7 October 2021
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• Generic Design Assessment: Summary of disposability assessment for wastes and spent fuel arising from the operation and decommissioning of UK HPR1000
  • 11 June 2021
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Environment Agency charge proposals from October 2021
  • 16 December 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 10 September 2021
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2022 to 2025 for consultation
  • 6 December 2021
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 31 January 2022
• Towards fusion energy: CoRWM response to BEIS consultation
  • 11 January 2022
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Policy paper
• Radioactive substances: provisional common framework
  • 16 December 2021
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Policy paper
• Radioactive wastes from fusion energy: preliminary position paper
  • 6 December 2021
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Waste Metric Dashboard: December 2021
  • 12 January 2022
  • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
  • 17 December 2021
  • Dounreay
  • Corporate report
• CoRWM meeting minutes, 14 September 2021
  • 6 December 2021
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Transparency
• Geological disposal: scrutiny of RWM's work - annual reports
  • 29 November 2021
  • Environment Agency and Office for Nuclear Regulation
  • Corporate report
• Discharges and Environmental Monitoring Annual Report 2020
  • 24 November 2021
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• 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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• Cabinet Office
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• Northern Ireland Office
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• UK Export Finance
• UK Health Security Agency

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