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Changing culture and practice:
A SAFEGROUNDS with SD:SPUR conference

On 12 and 13 March 07, the SAFEGROUNDS and SD:SPUR Learning Networks held a conference covering the management of contaminated land and decommissioning wastes on nuclear and defence sites.

To download summaries and slides from the conference presentations and workshops, click on the session titles below (all downloads are in Adobe acrobat format).

Click here to download the full conference programme.

Presentation slides and summaries

Day 1

Key note address: The scale of the challenge
Phil Davies, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

The latest developments in the regulatory framework for contaminated land
Marion Hill, independent consultant
Dr Colette Grundy, Environment Agency

Driving good practice in the defence context
Fred Dawson, Ministry of Defence
Mark Hill, Defence Estates
Sean Amos, Atomic Weapons Establishment

Workshop A: Deciding site end-states with local stakeholders
Doug Graham, UKAEA
Claire Gallery-Strong, British Nuclear Group
Transcription of comments submitted by delegates at workshop A

Workshop B: Keeping good records
Julian Cruickshank, BNG Sellafield
Stephen George, Iron Mountain
Phillip Whittle, BNG

Workshop C: Communicating technical information to non-technical people
Pippa Hyam, Dialogue by Design
Dr Andy Thomas, Future Solutions

How we assess risk for the management of contaminated land and decommissioning wastes
Graham Smith, Enviros Consulting Limited
Dr Chris Busby, Green Audit

Conference dinner talk: The benefits of building long-tem relationships with stakeholders
Professor Gordon MacKerron, Chairman of CoRWM

Day 2

The theory and practice of sustainable management of decommissioning wastes
Neil Shaw, British Nuclear Group Sellafield Limited
Paul Dorfman, Centre for Involvement, University of Warwick
Mark Bentley, CIRIA

The latest developments in the policy and regulatory framework for the management of decommissioning wastes
Marion Hill, independent consultant
Dr Robert Jackson, Defra

Cultures of good practice
Jack Williamson, British Nuclear Group Sellafield Limited

The market and the supply chain
Mark Hannan, N-Ovation Limited

Workshop D: Good practice tools for waste management
Mark Bentley, CIRIA
David Owen, Chairman of the Clearance & Exemptions Working Group
John Barritt, Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)

Workshop E: The waste hierarchy – opportunities and risks
Peter Guthrie, University of Cambridge
Bill Miller, Stoller UK Limited
Richard Bramhall, Low Level Radiation Campaign

Workshop F: Latest experience from two key sites
Doug Graham, UKAEA
Simon Bremer, British Nuclear Group

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