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Establishing sustainable practices in managing very low level waste and free-release construction materials in nuclear industry decommissioning - scoping study report
CIRIA, March 2003
The scoping study on establishing sustainable practices for managing very low level radioactive wastes was carried out by CIRIA in association with UKAEA, Professor Peter Guthrie and the Environment Council. The report contains recommendations about how the project should be taken forward. This is now being done, with sponsorship from the DTI’s Safety Issues Task Force.
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Advice to Ministers on Management of Low Activity Solid Radioactive Wastes within the United Kingdom
Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC), March 2003
In this report the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) makes a number of recommendations about the large volumes of low activity solid wastes that will arise when decommissioning of the UK’s redundant nuclear facilities and clean-up of radioactively contaminated sites get fully underway. The committee believes that there is a need for a strategic review of UK policy on managing these wastes.
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Planning, managing and organising the decommissioning of nuclear facilities: lessons learned
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), May 2004
The document summarises the reported experience in the planning and management of decommissioning. It is particularly aimed at decision-makers, plant operators, contractors, and regulators involved in the planning and management of decommissioning activities. This is particularly applicable to nuclear installations, which are approaching the end of their operating lives.
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Collaborative working to develop industry guidance – Site Decommissioning: Sustainable Practices in the Use of Resources (SD:SPUR)
Paul McClelland, UKAEA, Dounreay
In this paper Paul McClelland describes how dialogue and collaborative working has been used to very positive effect to develop guidance for decommissioning managers at nuclear sites to consider sustainable approaches for the management of the large volumes of construction materials wastes arising from decommissioning. Specifically, this paper describes various themes that emerged during the dialogue and how these relate to developing practical approaches to sustainability during nuclear decommissioning.
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Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Quality Protocol
WRAP 2004
The WRAP Quality Protocol provides a uniform control process for the production of aggregates from inert waste that addresses some of the difficulties in the interpretation and application of the Waste Framework Directive. It provides producers with a means by which they can reasonably state and demonstrate that their product has been fully recovered and is no longer waste. A separate version of the protocol has been developed for Scotland.
The Quality Protocol can be used in parallel with the SD:SPUR main guidance by waste managers on nuclear sites to ensure the efficient delivery of a sustainable waste management strategy.
The Quality Protocol
The Quality Protocol Scotland
AggRegain Waste Management Regulations (WMR) Step by Step Tool
WRAP 2005
The WMR Step by Step Tool uses a flowchart approach to guide the user through the conventional (non-radioactive) Waste Management Regulations for England related to the processing, storage and use of various waste materials as construction aggregates. Details of key regulations relating to the management, transport, treatment and demolition wastes used in construction, or those processed for the production of aggregates are also accessible through this link.
Aggregates Recycling: Exploring the technology, drivers & market
In November 2005 the Construction Industry Environmental Forum held this seminar on the recycling of aggregates. There were two prime discussions on the transference of knowledge between non-hazardous and hazardous contexts took place. These covered the local authority perspective and dynamics of a regional recycling market, capital grants and business planning considerations of the aggregates recycler, standards, specifications and quality protocols for the production of aggregate products from waste and new regulations and processes for investigating Brownfield land and characterising contaminated materials.
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