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The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Magnox is ready to start a major decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish four ‘blower house’ superstructures at Berkeley site.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
The Waste Metric Dashboard summarises progress on the diversion of waste away from disposal to the LLW Repository and on the environmental performance of the National Waste Programme.
Three local initiatives in Copeland receive investment from the GDF Programme Community Investment Funding made available to benefit communities.
JWMPs identify projects and activities to support the embedding and implementation of the Strategy and good practice within these organisations. JWMPs also provide a 5-year forecast of waste arisings.
Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) project progresses as second borehole test gets seal of approval.
Disposability Assessment guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
New national capability to manage the UK’s radioactive waste
The requirements for packaging HHGW
The NWS Annual Review 2021-22 explains our organisational transition and development of NWS, alongside significant successes over the past year.
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
The objective of this report is to document the current status of information available on generic disposal concepts.
The illustrative designs in this section describe the processes for transport and emplacement of waste and the design characteristics that a disposal facility will need to include.
This week, the NDA group hosted it's first ever large-scale graduate recruitment event in Manchester, with over 600 candidates in attendance.
Overview of waste materials designated for disposal in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)
NWS to be ‘one stop shop’ for nuclear waste management and disposal
Engagement with four communities and site evaluation work underway
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
This report has been prepared by British Geological Survey, under contract, in support of the UK Geological Disposal Facility Programme.
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