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Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
This programme will support development of technologies and techniques that may enable future UK access to medical radionuclides.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
This specification supports the “Sort and Segregate Nuclear Waste” competition being run by Innovate UK, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Sellafield Ltd and Magnox Ltd.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment sites up to 75kte.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling sites.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Guidance to applicants on how the Environment Agency will consider air quality impact assessments from group 3 metals stack emissions from municipal waste incinerators and waste wood co-incinerators.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
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