Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste
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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
- Accumulating radioactive waste that you cannot transfer because of COVID-19: RPS C13
- Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
- The UK's nuclear history
- COVID-19 and exceeding permit limits for medical use of radioactive substances: RPS C15
News and communications
- Joint approach to training gets international recognition
- UK Statement to the 64th International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference
- Game changers - getting our robots to speak with one voice
- Dealing with the UK’s higher-activity radioactive waste is the right thing to do
Research and statistics
- Accelerating implementation of a geological disposal facility in the United Kingdom
- Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
- Operational safety review, Torness nuclear power station, 2019
- Nuclear and radiological safety: review of the UK framework 2019
- Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
Policy papers and consultations
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Draft Strategy for Consultation
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2020 to 2023
- Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
- Lillyhall landfill site: radioactive substances activities permit variation
- Sizewell C: engagement plan
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
- LLW Repository Ltd Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2019/2020
- On The Level Issue 25 September 2020
- Waste Metric Dashboard: August 2020
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020