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1 March 2006 - Consultation on Solid Low
Level Radioactive Waste
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The Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (DEFRA), have published proposals for consultation into solid low level
radioactive waste.
Although this type of radioactive waste is normally associated
with nuclear facility operations, the consultation is addressing long-term
management of such waste materials in smaller amounts, generated from
non-nuclear industries such as the following:
The future also holds the possibility of substantial amounts of
nuclear waste being generated by the de-commissioning of nuclear sites,
affecting such as the following:
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Soil.
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Building rubble.
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Ducting.
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Piping
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Reinforcement.
The three main questions asked in the consultation by the UK
Government, Scottish Executive, Welsh Assembly Government and in Northern
Ireland, the Department of the Environment are as follows:
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Whether there should be greater flexibility in the management of
the wide range of low level radioactive wastes, provided that the necessary
level of safety is maintained.
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Should the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority be expected to
consider other (i.e. non-NDA) nuclear and non-nuclear industry needs when making
arrangements for the management and disposal of its own wastes?
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Should regional and local authority planners play a greater role
in providing for the management of non-nuclear low level radioactive wastes
generated within their own areas?
The consultation period will run until 31 March 2006.
Future disposal of nuclear waste could affect the health and
welfare of all, so with this in mind, why not let your views be known in the
consultation.
The consultation document can be accessed by clicking the
following:
Low
Level Waste Forum
Further information can be accessed from the DEFRA Website by
clicking the following:
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Further information on the UK's radioactive waste can be
accessed from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CRWM) Website by
clicking the following:
Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
Article by Alexandra Johnston
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