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Four Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) members travelled to Andalucia to visit the El Cabril low and intermediate level nuclear waste disposal facility.
Members of CoRWM look at preparations for transporting nuclear waste, including shipping at Barrow Port and rail options around Cumbria.
Members met on Anglesey to learn more about the potential new nuclear development at its Closed and Open Plenary meetings.
Members were given an overview of the scale of the problem and challenges faced in the decommissioning of the site.
Details of our plenary meetings (all open to the public) for 2024.
In September, members of CoRWM visited the Trawsfyndd site in Snowdonia.
In July, members of CoRWM visited the Waste Treatment Complex at Sellafield.
In June, members of CoRWM visited the Underground Research Laboratory at Bure in France which is run by the French National Radioactive Waste Agency (ANDRA).
CoRWM members visit Sellafield to see current processing and storage of waste on site.
We visited the Culham Centre to find out more about plans to implement and regulate the revolutionary new fusion technology.
We have published a paper setting out how a geological disposal facility (GDF) would be regulated and by whom, so that the public and host communities have confidence in the regulatory system.
Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Dounreay, Britain's former centre of nuclear fast reactor research and development.
CoRWM and RWM discussed public awareness and engagement about waste treatment and disposal activities with a research team from Tokyo.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Hinkley Point C on 2 October 2018.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Sizewell B on 5 October 2018.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Sellafield on the 20 June 2018.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) visited Dalton Cumbrian Facility on 19 June 2018.
Our plenary meetings are open to the public.
Greg Clark appoints Sir Nigel Thrift as the new Chair to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM).
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
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