Waste Management
The NDA has published its Strategy Development Programme for Integrated Waste Management.
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Progress to deal with radioactive sludge in the Sellafield 60-year-old Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) has been impressive, with several milestones recently achieved.
The next plenary meeting of CORWM the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management will be at Old Trafford in Manchester on 26 April 2012.
Magnox has dispatched its final flask of fuel from Dungeness A for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria, completing a five-year programme of defuelling which has removed 99% of the radioactive hazard from the site.
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Dounreay has completed the destruction of one of the most hazardous legacies of Britain’s earliest atomic research.
The West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership has launched a formal public consultation to consider whether West Cumbria should take part in the search for a site for a repository for the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste.
SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have recently published two reports on work relating to possible disposal of most of the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste in a geological disposal facility deep underground.
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The NDA has published its draft Strategy Development Programme for Integrated Waste Management for comment.
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The latest issue of the ENS newletter has a report on deep geological disposal of nuclear waste and spent fuel.
