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. Pollution inventory reporting form

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

5. 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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Guidance and regulation

1. Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
   • Detailed guide
   • 2 September 2019
   • Environment Agency
2. The Siting Process for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)
   • Guidance
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
3. The UK's nuclear history
   • Detailed guide
   • 25 January 2018
   • Radioactive Waste Management
4. LLWR Waste Services
   • Detailed guide
   • 21 October 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
5. Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
   • Detailed guide
   • 4 April 2014
   • Environment Agency

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News and communications

28 February 2020 — Press release

Sellafield permit changes issued

Environment Agency

1. Shipment of Highly Active Waste from the UK to Germany
   • 19 February 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
   • News story
2. RWM sets out approach to evaluating sites for a GDF
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story
3. RWM yn nodi ei ddull o werthuso safleoedd ar gyfer GDF
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story
4. LLWR apprentices show business flair to win Challenge
   • 11 February 2020
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
   • 30 December 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Research
2. Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports
   • 24 October 2019
   • Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
   • Research
3. Managing on-site stockpiling and use of high volumes of concrete-based demolition material
   • 14 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report
4. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority radioactive waste management strategy consultation: CoRWM response
   • 7 November 2018
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Research
5. Graphene and its use in nuclear decommissioning
   • 13 July 2017
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Sellafield: radioactive substances activities (RSA) permit variation
   • 27 February 2020
   • Environment Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 01 December 2019
2. Site Evaluation - How we will evaluate sites in England
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 31 March 2019
3. Gwerthuso Safleoedd - Sut byddwn yn gwerthuso safleoedd - Nghymru
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 14 April 2019
4. Site Evaluation - How we will evaluate sites in Wales
   • 18 February 2020
   • Radioactive Waste Management
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 14 April 2019
5. Sizewell C: engagement plan
   • 24 January 2020
   • Environment Agency
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
   • 7 February 2020
   • Dounreay
   • Corporate report
2. Waste Metric Dashboard: January 2020
   • 6 February 2020
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
3. Sizewell C: response to EDF SZC Co stages 3 and 4 consultations
   • 24 January 2020
   • Environment Agency
   • Corporate report
4. Waste Forecasting Form: WSC-FOR-WFO
   • 9 January 2020
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report
5. Direct Research Portfolio Annual Report 2018 to 2019
   • 6 January 2020
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
2. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
3. Public Health England
4. Ministry of Defence
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

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1. Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
2. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
3. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Northern Ireland Office
6. Office for Product Safety & Standards
7. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
8. UK Export Finance

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