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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Hazardous waste producer registration (Wales)
Register your premises with Natural Resource Wales if you produce or hold hazardous waste in Wales
Guidance and regulation
- Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
- How to contact us
- The UK's nuclear history
- Geological Disposal - a programme like no other
- GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)
News and communications
- Latest step of borehole sealing project a success
- Formal approval for revised package design
- Understanding the scale and needs of a Geological Disposal Facility
- CoRWM plenary meeting dates and locations
- NWS hosts Sky News visit to world’s first GDF in Finland
Research and statistics
- Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2021
- Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) reports
- Initial radiological assessment methodology 2
- Environment Agency 2021 data on regulated businesses in England
- Implications of inshore siting of a geological disposal facility (GDF)
Policy papers and consultations
- Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
- Sizewell C: environmental permits for a new nuclear power station
- Hinkley Point C: contractual documents
- Sizewell C: engagement plan
- Environment Agency's engagement plan for geological disposal
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Mission Progress Report 2022
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- Waste Metric Dashboard: October 2022
- On The Level October 2022, issue 33
- Nuclear Waste Services Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Annual Statements