Waste Management
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.
Contracts in support of the preparatory studies phase of the UK’s geological disposal facility (GDF) for higher activity nuclear wastes.
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NDA’s Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) has published independent research commissioned to review the performance of five potential metals that could be used in the manufacture of canisters for the disposal of High Level Waste (HLW) and Spent Fuel (SF) in a geological disposal facility.
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Hazard reduction at Sellafield has taken a major step forward today with the successful transfer of 14,800 litres of historic radioactive liquid waste from a fifty year old nuclear waste storage silo for safe treatment.
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A state of the art facility for the storage of the nation’s low level nuclear waste opened at the NDA’s site near Drigg in Cumbria on 29 July 2010.
