Radioactive
SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay.
ONR guidance on radioactive waste management has been updated as a result of comments received since February 2010.
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A consultation workshop on ‘Bulk Quantities’ of radioactive matter took place on 24 October 2011, allowing consultees the opportunity to ask ONR any questions of clarification before responding formally.
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The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR extends its remit as a new team with regulatory responsibility for the transportation of radioactive material joins the organisation.
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Some people hear “radioactive materials transport” and immediately become petrified. The facts simply don’t support that fear. And, moving these products is essential and necessary for public health, manufacturing, science and engineering.
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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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For many years, nuclear regulators have actively worked towards integrated management of radioactive waste on nuclear sites, via the development and use of, integrated waste strategies.
Dounreay’s decommissioning contractor sets out what will happen to an estimated 300,000 tonnes of radioactive material from the clean-out and closure of the former nuclear research site.
A notice published today in the Official Journal of the European Union seeks expressions of interest from companies capable of building a plant to grout low-level radioactive waste prior to its disposal at Dounreay.