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This webpage contains two types of documents, those produced by or on behalf of participants in the SAFEGROUNDS Learning Network and those produced independently of SAFEGROUNDS and that are included here at the suggestion of participants.
Review and Commentary on Site End-points and Radioactively Contaminated Land Management
This document results from discussions from within the SAFEGROUNDS Learning Network. It provides an opening position that describes the key issues associated with site end-points on radiological contaminated land. It is not meant to be a detailed, exhaustive and consensual document, rather a commentary on the current views. This has been a useful review of what was identified as an important issue for the SAFEGROUNDS community.
SAFEGROUNDS advocacy issues
On behalf of project participants, CIRIA wrote to the Department of Trade
and Industry about these issues, because this was identified as the most appropriate
government department to begin to deal with them.
Open letter from SITF to DTI about issues
raised in SAFEGROUNDS
In the first phase of the SAFEGROUNDS project its steering group drew the
attention of the Safety Issues Task Force (SITF) to a problem with the regulatory
framework for contaminated land on nuclear sites. The chairman of the SITF
wrote an open letter to the head of the Department of Trade and Industry’s
Atomic Energy Division to ask the DTI to pursue the issue with other government
departments and agencies.
Wobbly science and unrecognised risks
An essay by Richard Bramhall of the Low Level Radiation Campaign. He argues
that there are such large uncertainties about the health risks of radiation,
especially from radioactive materials taken into the body, that it is not
possible at present to set numerical standards for delicensing nuclear sites.
DTI's Liabilities Management Group and
Safety Issue Task Force
This note by Andy Thomas of BNFL summarises the history and work
of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Liabilities Management Group
and its Safety Issues Task Force. The latter initiated SAFEGROUNDS and continues
to be one of its sponsors.
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Publication of HSE criterion for delicensing Nuclear Sites
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has now published its criterion for delicensing parts of, or entire sites licensed under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965. For further information, follow the above link.
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Safety indicators for the
safety assessment of radioactive waste disposal
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), September 2003
The reports of the Working Group on Principles and Criteria for Radioactive
Waste Disposal contain the developing views of experts within the international
community and should be of use to those engaged in producing national and
international standards and guidance in this area. However, they should not
be seen as representing a ‘Member State consensus’ on the subjects
being discussed.
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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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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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Appendices
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Radioactive waste
disposal implications of extending part IIA to cover radioactively contaminated
land
DEFRA, July 2003
This is a shortened version of a report prepared for DEFRA’s Radioactively
Contaminated Land Steering Group. It highlights the difficulties in using
landfills for disposal of wastes generated by remediation of radioactively
contaminated land and points out that there is limited radiological capacity
at Drigg for some of these wastes.
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Profile
of land uses which may have been subject to radiological contamination – consultation
document
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs,
April 2004
The purpose of the publication is to provide regulators,
developers, consultants and other interested parties with authoritative and
researched advice on the likely occurrence of radiological ground contamination
in the UK as a result of certain industrial practices.
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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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Stakeholder dialogues on
nuclear issues
The Environment Council
This discusses the work The Environment Council has down with a variety of
stakeholders on nuclear issues. The table includes details of the projects
in terms of stakeholders, project timescale along with a brief summary and
web links where available.
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The Consensus Conference on Protection of the Environment
Nordic
Nuclear Safety Research (NKS), October 2001
The conference was
part of the Radiation Protection in the 21st Century: Ethical, Philosophical
and Environmental Issues seminar held between 22-25th October 2001 . It
provided a forum for discussion of current issues in radiation protection
and the environment, input into international developments related to the
protection of the environment, and to encourage wider participation in
the debate.
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