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NDA launches UK strategy for managing low level radioactive waste
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published the UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW)...
Site Overview
- The Low Level Waste (LLW) Repository provides safe, reliable, and cost-effective LLW management services on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) throughout the United Kingdom (UK).
- LLW Repository Ltd. conducts LLW disposal and storage operations in highly-engineered concrete vaults (Vaults 8 and 9).
- Through our Consignor Support organisation, comprehensive waste services are provided to the nuclear and non-nuclear industries:
- Customer support for waste treatment, storage, and disposal services to consignor sites
- Metallic waste recycling and treatment services
- Compactable waste treatment services utilising the Waste Monitoring and Compaction (WAMAC) facility at Sellafield in West Cumbria
- Combustible waste treatment and incineration services
- Waste packaging and transportation services
- Extensive work is underway for preparation and delivery of an Environmental Safety Case to assess future operations of the LLW Repository.
- Ongoing decommissioning efforts are in process for legacy facilities with residual contamination from Plutonium Contaminated Materials (PCM).
- As the "UK Integrator" for LLW management, LLW Repository Ltd. is playing a central role to the NDA for development and implementation of the UK Nuclear Industry LLW Strategy.
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