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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:
  • 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:
  • Radioactivity in food and the environment (RIFE) reports

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Environment Agency and 2 others
    • 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:
  • 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:
  • Nuclear Waste Services – Research at Nuclear Waste Services

    We commission scientific research and development, worth several million pounds a year, to support waste management.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services
    • Updated:
  • Regulating for people, the environment and growth, 2020

    Environment Agency 2020 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:
  • Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England

    Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2020.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Environment Agency data on business environmental performance
    • Organisation: Environment Agency
    • Updated:
  • 2019 Inventory for Geological Disposal

    Overview of waste materials designated for disposal in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Nuclear Waste Services and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Generic Design Assessment: Summary of disposability assessment for wastes and spent fuel arising from the operation and decommissioning of UK HPR1000

    This provides a preliminary judgement as to the potential acceptability for disposal to a geological disposal facility of the waste packages expected to arise from the UK Hua-long Pressurised Reactor (UK HPR1000).

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Radioactive Waste Management
    • Updated:
  • Large waste transport container summary report NDA/RWM/168

    Summary of work to develop a feasible concept for a reusable Large Waste Transport Container to transport Higher Activity Waste to a Geological Disposal Facility.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Radioactive Waste Management
    • Updated:
  • Magnox Inquiry: final report

    Final report of the independent inquiry led by Steve Holliday.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Magnox Inquiry
    • Organisation: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
    • Updated: