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The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
For a facility with a treatment capacity less than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
National Geological Screening for a GDF - A summary of the geological attributes of the region
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Know when waste derived biodiesel is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
National Geological Screening for a GDF - Northern Ireland region
National Geological Screening for a GDF - London and the Thames Valley region
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