Corporate report

Higher Activity Waste treatment framework

Describes the programme of tasks specifically aimed at developing alternative treatment options for higher activity waste.

• From: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Published: 23 October 2015

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NDA Higher Activity Waste Treatment Framework October 2015

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This high-level HAW Treatment Framework describes the programme of tasks specifically aimed at developing alternative treatment options for HAW. The NDA HAW Treatment Framework is a planning and communication tool to set out our activities and to help to inform SLCs, regulators, the research community and the supply chain.

It describes those key areas that the NDA is interested in and explains why.

It describes the challenges faced in terms of:

• waste volume reduction
• higher activity waste disposal
• treatment technology development
• our high level plans for expanding the toolkit available to waste producers

Published 23 October 2015