Regulatory inspection of the provision of disposability assessment and waste packaging advice in the UK to provide confidence that higher activity waste stored on licensed sites will be suitable for safe handling, transport and disposal - 15088
- Office of Nuclear Regulation - ONR (United Kingdom)
- Environment Agency - EA (United Kingdom)
Radioactive Waste Management Limited (RWM), the developer and future operator of a geological disposal facility (GDF) in the United Kingdom, operates a disposability assessment process to minimise the risk that current conditioning and packaging of higher activity wastes (HAW) will result in packages incompatible with geological disposal in the future. Specialists in nuclear and environmental safety from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and the Environment Agency (EA) in 2013/14 completed an inspection of the RWM's process of disposability assessment. The inspection gave the regulators confidence that RWM has in place a systematic process to provide an important means of reducing risks associated with waste packaging in advance of an operational GDF and that the process of disposability assessment is providing the necessary information for licensees to assure future HAW disposal to the GDF. This work forms part of our continuing programme to review RWM's work related to geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste (HAW). (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22822652
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--19-WM-15088
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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