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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IAEA Promotes Sharing of Experience and Good Practices Among States.
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NDA welcomes the Environment Agency report that scrutinises work related to geological disposal. This report looks at work in 2008/09 and presents the Environment Agency’s plans for 2009/10. It has been produced as part of an agreement between the Environment Agency and the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate.
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Sellafield Ltd has been fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law after two contractors inhaled radioactive contamination.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has analysed the state-of-the-art science, technology and procedures needed across the EU for implementation of geological disposal for high-level nuclear waste.