Links

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UK Regulation

Environment Agency: Information on the disposal of LLW to landfill

Environment Agency: Page on Managing Radioactive Waste

SEPA: Regulating the impact of radioactive substances on the environment in Scotland

HSE: Home page for the HSE's nuclear responsibilities

Policy and Strategy

Defra: Defra's Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Site

National LLW Policy: Governments policy on LLW

LLW Strategy Consultation

Defra: a list of Defra consultations

Repository Programmes

Low-level Waste Repository: Website of the UK's principal facility for the disposal of LLW

NDA: Link to page giving details of the NDA's responsibilities for deep geological disposal

UKAEA: Information on historic disposals at UKAEA's Dounreay Site

UKAEA: Information on the new disposal facilities at UKAEA's Dounreay Site

CoRWM: Website of the reconstituted Committee on Radiaoctive Waste Management

Yucca Mountain: US Programme for the disposal of waste at Yucca Mountain

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

SKB: Swedish programme for radioactive waste disposal

National and International Organisations

HPA: Link to the Health Protection Agency's home page on radiation.

ICRP: International Commission on Radiological Protection

Safegrounds: A forum for the dissemination of good practice on the management of radioactively and chemically contaminated land.

SD-SPUR: A network for developing and disseminating good practice on the sustainable management of assets and decommissioning wastes arising from nuclear sites.

IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency

NEA: Nuclear Energy Agency

Useful Links and Hubs

Radwaste.org: A guide to radioactive waste resources on the internet

NDA: A useful page of links from NDA's website