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Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) provides independent scrutiny and transparent advice to the UK governments on the long-term management of radioactive waste.
CoRWM position papers and archive provide our published views on specific topics of interest to our stakeholders.
Find out about the structure of CoRWM and read minutes of plenary and other meetings.
Feasibility of waste burning reactors in the UK, using technologies designed to reduce the amount of long-lived radioactive waste in spent nuclear fuel.
In July, members of CoRWM visited the Waste Treatment Complex at Sellafield.
CoRWM members visit Sellafield to see current processing and storage of waste on site.
The second in a series of CoRWM Reports on the progress towards the delivery of an operational geological disposal facility (GDF).
This paper focuses on the implications for the management of higher activity wastes and spent fuel resulting from the development of SMRs and AMRs.
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