Waste Management
The Scottish Government has announced its policy on how higher activity radioactive nuclear wastes will be managed in future.
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A major effort to clean up the seabed near the redundant nuclear site at Dounreay is captured in a new film on YouTube.
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Three nuclear regulatory bodies in England and Wales are working together as proposals progress to dispose of radioactive waste in a facility deep underground.
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Sellafield Ltd has signed an important metals recycling contract to treat Multi Element Bottle (MEB) racks which will save valuable disposal space at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR).
A decommissioning team is well on its way to emptying the water-filled ponds used historically to store spent fuel from the Dounreay Fast Reactor.
Waste teams from Sellafield Ltd are helping to make the Sellafield site safer having successfully reached two major milestones to retrieve historic Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) – ahead of schedule.
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Our Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) establishes standards and performance specifications for waste packages containing higher activity radioactive waste. This enables waste producers to condition their waste in a form that is expected to be compatible with both transport to, and ultimately disposal in a geological disposal facility.
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A new plant being constructed at Sellafield, known as the Silos Direct Encapsulation Plant (SDP), has seen significant progress towards its goal to treat legacy radioactive waste.
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The study looked at the West Cumbria Copeland and Allerdale areas, where a local partnership is talking to Government about the siting process for a deep geological disposal facility for nuclear waste.
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Collaborative working by teams at Sellafield has delivered a solution to a problematic waste disposal issue, saving the company over £250,000 in the process.