Radioactive Waste Briefings Archive

Issue 52 Model Response to Consultation by SEPA on an Application by EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited for Changes to the Authorisation covering the disposal of Radioactive Wastes from Hunterston B and Torness Power Stations (August 2014)

Issue 51 Review of Current Welsh Policy on the Disposal of Higher Activity Radioactive Waste (HAW) (June 2014)

Issue 50 Consultation on the management of overseas origin nuclear fuels held in the UK (April 2014)

Issue 49 Model response to Joint Governments Consultation on a ‘Strategy for the management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste in the UK’. (April 2014)

Issue 48 Public consultation on the request for consent to dismantling of seven nuclear submarines at Rosyth Royal Dockyard (April 2014)

Issue 47 NFLA / KIMO report on radioactive discharge concerns at Sellafield to the OSPAR Commission Radioactive Substances Committee (February 2014)

Issue 46 NFLA response to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority credible options for FED and ILW in England and Wales (February 2014)

Issue 45 Review of the Siting Process for a Geological Disposal Facility – Final response by the NFLA Secretariat to the UK Government DECC Consultation (December 2013)

Issue 44 Submarine Dismantling – Intermediate Level Waste Storage (October 2013)

Issue 43 Review of the Siting Process for a Geological Disposal Facility – Advice note to NFLA Member Authorities in Responding to the Consultation (October 2013)

Issue 42 The Radium Legacy and Other Contamination Problems (October 2013)

Issue 41 Fukishima: radioactivity in seawater (an open non-technical briefing for general readership) (August 2013)

Issue 40 NDA consultations on FED & ILW (June 2013)

Issue 39 NFLA response to UK Government ‘call for evidence’ on ‘geological disposal facility’ site selection process as part of the 2008 ‘Managing Radioactive Waste Safely’ Programme (June 2013)

Issue 38 Nuclear Submarine Dismantling Consultation – MOD Response (April 2013)

Towards a Safer Cumbria – How government, regulators and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority have neglected nuclear waste in Cumbria, by Pete Roche, FoE Cumbria (March 2013)

Issue 37 FSA Monitoring radioactivity in food (March 2013)

Issue 36 Application by Dounreay Site Restoration Limited for Authorisation to Dispose of Radioactive Wastes (December 2012)

Issue 35 Intermediate Level Waste Storage Solutions – Central and Southern Scotland Credible Options. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Consultation (August 2012)

Issue 34 Management of the UK’s plutonium stock: NFLA model response to the Government’s consultation on the proposed justification process for the reuse of plutonium (July 2012)

Issue 33 NDA Consultation on Exotic Fuels and Nuclear Materials Stored at the Dounreay Decommissioned Site (March 2012)

Issue 32 “Geological Disposal” of Radioactive Waste in West Cumbria – NFLA Response to the ‘Managing Radioactive Waste Safely’ Public Consultation Document (March 2012)

Issue 31 Ministry of Defence Submarine Dismantling Project Consultation NFLA Overview and Model Response (February 2012)

Issue 30 Submission of the Nuclear Free Local Authorities to the DECC Consultation on “Managing Radioactive Waste Safely: Desk Based Identification and Assessment of Potential Candidate Sites for Geological Disposal” (October 2011)

Issue 29 Exotic Fuels – Dounreay Fast Reactor Credible & Preferred Options, Public Consultation, July 2011, NFLA Model Response to NDA Consultation (August 2011)

Issue 28 NFLA Submission to UK Government Consultation on Long-term Plutonium Management Policy (May 2011)

Issue 27 A brief assessment of Scotland’s Higher Activity Radioactive Waste Policy (January 2011)

Issue 26 DECC consultation on the exemptions regime for radioactive substances (September 2010)

Issue 25 Radioactive Waste Briefing 25 Environment Agency GDA consultation (August 2010)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No 24 European Commission consultation on radioactive waste (April 2010)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No 23 NFLA model response for Scottish radioactive waste consultation (March 2010)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No22 NFLA overview of Scottish radioactive waste management policy (February 2010)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No21 NFLA response to the CoRWM report on radioactive waste research and development (September 2009)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No20 Overview of NDA Low Level Waste Strategy (August 2009)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No19 Overview of Radioactive Waste Storage Reviews (April 2009)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No18 Options for dealing with UK Plutonium Stockpiles (March 2009)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No17, The Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) Consultation (July 2007)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No16, Deep Geological Disposal: Is it the Solution? (July 2007)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No15, Deep Geological Disposal: Known Unknowns (June 2007)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No14 Briefing on the DEFRA and Devolved Administrations Public Consultation on Policy for the Long Term Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste in the United Kingdom (April 2006)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No13 Briefing on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Consultation on its Draft Strategy and Draft Environmental Report (September 2005)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No12 Briefing On The Committee On Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) (May 2005)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No11 Decommissioning And Lower Level Radioactive Waste (August 2004)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No10 Government Proposes New Decommissioning Policy (February 2004)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No 9 Draft Nuclear ‘Clean Up’ Bill Published (July 2003<)/p>

Radioactive Waste Briefing No 8 Decommissioning Policy Under the Spotlight (May 2003)

Radioactive Waste Briefing No 7 Government Seeks Views on Managing the ‘Nuclear Legacy’ (September 2002)

No. 6. November 2001 Government Launches Consultation of Managing Solid Radioactive Wastes (November 2001)

No. 5 August 2000 UK Strategy for Radioactive Discharges (August 2000)

No. 4  January 2000 Prospects for Nuclear Waste Clean Up: Is Consensus  Achievable?  (Special Briefing by Prof. Andrew Blowers) (January 2000)

No.3 November  1999 Policy Review Process (November 1999)

No. 2 July 1999 Reprocessing and Recycling (July 1999)

No. 1 April 1999 Lords Start Policy Review (April 1999)