Final Surrender of Radioactive Substances (Environmental) Permits on UK Nuclear Licensed Sites - 16646

Conference · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:22838375

Cochrane, Jim ^[1]; Long, Juliet ^[2]

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1. Scottish Environment Protection Agency (United Kingdom)
2. Environment Agency (United Kingdom)

This paper is split into three, linked, parts; each part explains work being taken forward by the United Kingdom (UK) Government and/or the nuclear site regulators to apply proportionate regulatory controls before, during and after nuclear site decommissioning and clean-up. Part I of the paper describes work led by UK Government to examine credible options for a step-wise removal of those safety, security and environmental protection regulations that apply to nuclear site decommissioning and clean-up. Any removal of regulations will have to take due account of and be proportionate to the residual risk following cessation of all clean-up works. Part II of the paper describes the approach used by the UK Environment Agencies to regulate final site clean-up of UK nuclear licensed sites. Ultimately, clean-up will result in nuclear sites being released from radioactive substances regulation. Part III of the paper links Parts I and II of the paper together by describing how the UK Environment Agencies will apply proportionate regulation to the clean-up of the 140-acre Dounreay site in Caithness which is the largest nuclear clean-up project in Scotland and the second largest in the UK, after Sellafield. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22838375
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--19-WM-16646
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
DECOMMISSIONING
DFR REACTOR
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
HAZARDS
RADIATION PROTECTION
REGULATIONS
REMOVAL
UNITED KINGDOM