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The National Waste Programme was established to implement the UK’s strategy for the management of solid low level radioactive waste (LLW) from the nuclear industry. It is an industry-wide collaboration led by LLW Repository …
Essential information on how to get involved
Environment Agency regulatory position on using waste clay in the construction of slurry lagoons or irrigation/winter storage reservoirs.
View the permit issued for EMR Hartlepool, Hartlepool under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
Poster and online artwork for retailers.
Sita (Lancashire) Limited applied for a permit to dispose of low level radioactive waste (LLW) in November 2009.
Describes our expectations for leadership and management systems by radioactive substances activity permit holders who are also nuclear site licensees in England and Wales.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing samples of waste for regulation or investigation other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, depolluting and dismantling of waste motorcycles when holding SR2021 No 12: Vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and dewater (dry) non-hazardous iron ochre sludge at an abandoned coal mine water treatment scheme.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
Standard rules for using waste to manufacture timber or construction products.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for the unintentional receipt of radioactive materials and radioactive waste by the operator of any facility which uses a radiation detection system.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
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