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  • Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance

    What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Geological Disposal - a programme like no other

    Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • GDF (Geological Disposal Facility)

    A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing

    Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • How to contact us

    Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.

    • From: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
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  • RSR guidance for nuclear sites undergoing decommissioning

    Radioactive substances regulation guidance on the management of the generation and disposal of radioactive waste during the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.

    • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
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  • Hazardous waste: rejected loads guidance

    When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Non-nuclear RSR: environmental permits

    Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Radioactive substances regulation (RSR) guidance

    This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
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  • Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export

    Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • The UK's nuclear history

    Putting geological disposal into context

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Guidance on the scope of and exemptions from the radioactive substances legislation in the UK

    An aid to interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 4 others
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  • RSR generic developed principles: regulatory assessment

    Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Creating Standardised Waste Packages

    This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • The Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004: guidance on their application and administration

    Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
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  • Communities and GDF

    Working in partnership to shape future plans and benefits

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • All Guidance Documents

    All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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  • Sellafield: nuclear regulation

    How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • RGN 9: Surrender

    Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Integrated Waste Management Programme

    Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.

    • From: Nuclear Waste Services
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