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This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
How to comply with your standard rules environmental permit for the keeping and use of Category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of radioactively contaminated land exposure for human health.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
This page provides introductory information on Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) packages.
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.
Guidance on setting limits and levels on discharges of gaseous and liquid radioactive waste from nuclear licensed sites in England and Wales.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
MCERTS performance standard is for laboratories undertaking radioanalytical testing of water.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
Statutory guidance on radioactive contaminated land for local authorities.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Who, what, why and where
Putting geological disposal into context
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