News and communications

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), in collaboration with its subsidiary Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), has awarded two contracts to establish an innovative partnership for the enhanced management of asbestos waste.

• Updated: 23 April 2024

NDA announces appointment of Lawrie Haynes CBE as Interim Chair of subsidiary, Sellafield Ltd.

• Updated: 17 April 2024

Four people have been arrested in connection with an investigation into waste offences, fraud and money laundering after raids at three homes in Yorkshire.

• Updated: 12 April 2024

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero announces new Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Chair.

• Updated: 12 April 2024

Richmond perfume firm in fees fault – but Surrey wildlife the winner.

• Updated: 11 April 2024

Ministerial direction relating to determination of environmental permits for new waste incineration facilities in England.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

Amended charges for international waste shipments come into force as of 1 April 2024

• Updated: 2 April 2024

Officers from the Environment Agency and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime visited two landfill sites in the north of England in a day of action.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

Up to £295m in capital funding for local authorities to roll out weekly food waste collections

• Updated: 25 March 2024

Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.

• Updated: 13 March 2024

POCA hearing orders Michael William Leah to pay £54,900. Sum to be paid within three months. When he was convicted of six offences in 2011 he paid only £100

• Updated: 11 March 2024

This week, the NDA group hosted it's first ever large-scale graduate recruitment event in Manchester, with over 600 candidates in attendance.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

Details of our plenary meetings (all open to the public) for 2024.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

Last week 25 school children from Gizo and Emmanuel schools, Western province, completed 3 days of plastic art creation at the Gizo School Hall.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has upheld a motion to withdraw from the GDF Siting Process

• Updated: 21 February 2024

A Northumberland man who made his neighbours’ lives a misery during lockdown by storing and burning waste on an illegal waste site has been sentenced.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Local wildlife trusts to receive a £20,000+ windfall.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

Environment Agency officers blocked by operator

• Updated: 6 February 2024

The Environment Agency launches Economic Crime Unit to address serious financial offences in the waste sector

• Updated: 5 February 2024