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  • Ambient gamma radiation dose rates across the UK

    Data received from fixed and mobile monitors measuring the ambient (background) gamma radiation dose rate across the UK.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Radioactive incident monitoring
    • Organisation: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
    • Updated:
  • Operational safety review, Heysham 2 nuclear power station 2023: report and government response

    An IAEA-led team of independent industry experts conducted a review of operational safety at Heysham 2 nuclear power station.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
    • Updated:
  • Environment Agency 2022 data on regulated businesses in England

    Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2022.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Environment Agency data on business environmental performance
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • Review of activities regulated by the Environment Agency, 2022

    Environment Agency 2022 annual report on the environmental performance of regulated businesses in England and the work we do to regulate them.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Environment Agency data on business environmental performance
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) report

    Annual assessment report of radioactivity in food and the environment and the public's exposure to radiation.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and 3 others
    • Updated:
  • Guide to reference groundwater and porewater compositions

    This report has been prepared by British Geological Survey, under contract, in support of the UK Geological Disposal Facility Programme.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • Potential use of robotic systems in the geological disposal facility

    Report looking at the potential use of robotic and autonomous systems in the UK's geological disposal facility (GDF).

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
    • Updated:
  • Assessment of the benefits of the NDA innovation portfolio

    This report, carried out by know.consulting, was commissioned by the NDA to deliver a baseline benefits assessment of the past and current NDA innovation portfolio. Figures and terminology were accurate at the time the repor…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
    • Updated:
  • GDF Programme Sustainability

    Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme sustainability ‘first look’ paper setting out how sustainability is, and will continue to be, at the heart of the GDF programme.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • GDF Bibliography Summary 2007 to 2021

    This document lists and links to a wide range of scientific and technical information relating to geological disposal in published reports, conference and journal papers.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • WPS/300/05 Specification for Waste Packages Containing Low Heat Generating Waste Part D - Container Specific Requirements

    This document forms part of the Waste Package Specification and Guidance Documentation (WPSGD), a suite of documents prepared and issued by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS).

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2021

    Environment Agency 2021 annual report on the environmental performance of regulated businesses in England and the work we do to regulate them.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Environment Agency data on business environmental performance
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • Initial radiological assessment methodology 2

    A methodology and spreadsheet system used by the Environment Agency to assess radiation doses to people and wildlife.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • Environment Agency 2021 data on regulated businesses in England

    Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2021.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Environment Agency data on business environmental performance
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • Implications of inshore siting of a geological disposal facility (GDF)

    A report by the Committee on the implications of an inshore location for the delivery of a GDF.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
    • Updated:
  • Geological disposal facility (GDF): high level cost review

    A review and assessment of the potential construction and operational costs for a geological disposal facility.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
    • Updated:
  • GDF - Creating Jobs & Skills: A First Look

    New NWS report highlights significant and long-term opportunities for a local workforce and GDF to create more than 4,000 jobs within the first 25 years.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • Nuclear emergencies: information for the public

    How radiation affects people, the consequences of a nuclear accident and the measures used to protect public health in the event of an accident.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Radiation incidents: public health preparedness and response
    • Organisation: UK Health Security Agency
    • Updated:
  • Impact performance methodology for Robust Shielded Waste Packages

    A review and update of the methodology for evaluating the release fractions (RFs) for Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) impact accident scenarios.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • Roadmap towards a Biosphere Characterisation Programme in support of a UK Geological Disposal Facility

    Site characterisation supports the evaluation of the potential for sites to meet safety requirements for a GDF for UK’s higher-activity radioactive wastes.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated: