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

• 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

• Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 September 2019
  • Environment Agency
• The UK's nuclear history
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 January 2018
  • Nuclear Waste Services
• Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 October 2020
  • Environment Agency
• LLWR Vacancies
  • Notice
  • 18 January 2022
  • Closed organisation: Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
• How to contact us
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 January 2006
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management

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News and communications

• This is Me in the nuclear industry 2022
  • 9 May 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Nuclear Waste Services
  • News story
• CoRWM plenary meeting dates and locations
  • 6 May 2022
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • News story
• Nuclear skills showcased at industry awards ceremony
  • 1 April 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Sellafield Ltd, and Magnox Ltd
  • News story
• Landmark day for major drum disposal project
  • 29 March 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services, Magnox Ltd, and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • News story
• First community projects granted GDF community funding
  • 14 March 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK
  • 26 April 2022
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Research
• Nuclear Waste Services – Research at Nuclear Waste Services
  • 31 January 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Research
• 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

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Policy papers and consultations

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Draft Business Plan 2022 to 2025 for consultation
  • 22 March 2022
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 31 January 2022
• Environment Agency's engagement plan for geological disposal
  • 10 May 2022
  • Environment Agency
  • Policy paper
• Sizewell C: engagement plan
  • 10 May 2022
  • Environment Agency
  • Policy paper
• 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

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Waste Metric Dashboard: March 2022
  • 12 May 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Corporate report
• Waste Metric Dashboard: April 2022
  • 12 May 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services
  • Corporate report
• Geological disposal: scrutiny of Nuclear Waste Services' work - annual reports
  • 10 May 2022
  • Environment Agency and Office for Nuclear Regulation
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
  • 20 April 2022
  • Dounreay
  • Corporate report
• Magnox Joint Waste Management Plan (JWMP)
  • 13 April 2022
  • Nuclear Waste Services and Magnox 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
• Environment Agency
• Nuclear Waste Services
• Sellafield Ltd
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Magnox Ltd
• Dounreay
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• UK Space Agency