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Find out how to understand and influence nuclear decommissioning where you live and work.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
This page provides introductory information on High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
The requirements for packaging LHGW
This page explains how Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is working to achieve safe management and disposal of Higher Activity Waste (HAW) in the UK.
European and UK regulations govern how you can move radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel into or out of the country.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This page provides introductory information on waste packages for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting e-bikes at waste treatment sites under a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) permit or T11 waste exemption.
When aggregate made from steel slag is no longer waste.
Information about the Biffa Waste Services Limited, Poplars anaerobic digestion plant, Cannock, Staffordshire.
The purpose of this document is to provide a methodology for qualitative risk assessment (QLRA) of land contamination.
Applications and decisions made under Regulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Justification of Practices involving Ionising Radiation Regulations (JoPIIRR) 2004.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
This guidance outlines the eligibility criteria and addresses some of the questions you may have about Nuclear Waste Services' Property Value Protection (PVP) scheme.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
Standard rules to operate a composting facility (not available for permit applications made after 7 January 2013).
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