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Development of a decommissioning toolkit of scalable, transferable and integrated solutions which would drive safer, faster and cheaper decommissioning.
Ensuring appropriate, accessible records essential for safe interim storage, future completion, transport and ultimate disposition of waste packages.
In 2013 we concluded the development of our strategy to remove unirradiated nuclear material from Dounreay and consolidate it at Sellafield.
Since the Fukushima Daiichi incident in 2011, the UK has increased its support to Japan, using its experience to assist with decommissioning challenges.
A Northamptonshire man, who was jailed in January, after a decade of waste offences was ordered this week to pay £12,500 in costs and £140 in victim surcharge.
A Devon businessman has been ordered by Exeter Crown Court to spend £85,344 of his own money removing waste he illegally deposited on a floodplain near Cullompton.
Eight wheel tipper truck impounded in joint operation with police.
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Online workshop encourages local people to stamp out avoidable plastic waste.
Peter Higgins given suspended sentence for illegally storing and burning waste at Gedney Dyke.
Skip man’s offences spanned a decade.
The Joint Unit for Waste Crime celebrates its first anniversary of cracking down on criminals and gangs who commit serious and organised waste crime.
Residents and social media users in the North East that use unregistered waste carriers could find themselves ‘accidental criminals’, warns the Environment Agency.
A Teesside-based company has been fined £36,000 for illegally depositing waste following a successful Environment Agency prosecution.
The Environment Agency has launched an appeal to catch the people who dumped asbestos in a Devon watercourse.
The Environment Agency has intercepted increasing amounts of contaminated plastic waste which were bound for illegal export.
Chance police check in Chiswick.
The British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and partners will be running the Blu Hope campaign on World Children’s Day on 20 November 2020.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Adversity has been transformed into opportunity following a leak in a 60-year-old tank at Sellafield.
Multi-agency visits prompted by rise in theft of cabling catalytic converters.
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