Waste Management
Sellafield Ltd has taken a major step forward towards its mission of high hazard reduction by successfully returning to service the Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3.
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Our Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) is sponsoring the “Underpinning Science and Technology for Radioactive Waste” conference which takes place at Loughborough University, Leicestershire from 18 to 20 October 2011.
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The programme of returning solid highly active waste (HAW) from the UK to Japan has continued today with the commencement of the transport of the second consignment of HAW from Sellafield.
Today, the Council has adopted the “radioactive waste and spent fuel management directive”, proposed by the Commission on 3rd November 2010. With this adoption, the Directive will enter into force at the latest in September this year.
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The final piece in the jigsaw is now in place to start bulk sludge retrieval in one of the priority decommissioning projects at Sellafield.
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Babcock has been awarded a framework contract by Magnox Ltd for the retrieval and processing of both wet and solid intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) across all the Magnox sites in the UK.
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).
