Integrated Waste Management Strategy – preparing for SIII

NuLeAF – 29th January 2015

IWM Topics

Integrated Waste Management

Lower Activity Wastes

Non-Radioactive & Hazardous

Wastes

Higher Activity Wastes

Other themes(Site Restoration etc)

NDA STRATEGY

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NDA IWM key messages (1)

• Our strategy is to ensure that wastes are managed in a manner that provides value for money, protects people and the environment, whilst complying with UK Government and Devolved Governments policies and regulations.

• We continue to promote the importance of waste characterisation, improved waste information and waste segregation to facilitate waste management planning and application of the Waste Hierarchy.

NDA IWM key messages (2)

• Our Higher Activity Waste Strategy is to implement the UK Government’s policy of deep geological disposal and the Scottish Government policy for long-term management in near surface facilities.

• LLWR is central to our LLW strategy and it is important that we make best use of this facility’s remaining ccapacity. We will reduce disposal volumes by waste prevention, reusing materials and recycling wherever possible.

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Types of wastes in the UK

LLW Long-lived ILW Vitrified HLW

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List is not exhaustive & values are indicative only. Major decommissioning streams are in red.

Waste types – operational & decommissioning

Waste Type DSRL/

Sellafield

Magnox RSRL

Aqueous Liquids

Oils & Solvents

Sludges & Slurries

PCM -

Ion Exchange Media

Wood, Paper & Cardboard

Plastic & Rubber

Irradiated Fuel Debris

Graphite

Steel

Concrete

2013 UKRWI – ILW future arisings

Summary of HAW Baseline

Waste conditioning

Transport

Disposal facility for HAW

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Transport

Interim waste storage or long-

term storage

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HAW Baseline (Each site)

Retrievals Treatment, conditioning &

packaging

Interim storage

GDF

HAW Strategy

GDF(England & Wales)

Characterise

Sort and Segregation

Opportunities

LLWR / Out of Scope

Consider Options

Site solutions:e.g.

•Treatment

•Decay storage

•Support to risk reduction programmes

•Robust storage

Estate Solutions:e.g.

•Waste processing services

•Consolidated Storage including decay storage

(..where required) Select optimised storage regime:

Package & Store

Alternative Disposal Option(s)

(England & Wales)

SII HAW Projects - summary

• Storage consolidation – series of NDA positions• HAW Stores Guidance – published• Graphite – SMS papers published• HAW treatment – framework established (ongoing work),

developed an initial Business Case for thermal treatment• Boundary wastes – initiated (LLWR published guidance)• Geological disposal (RWMD to RWM)• Support to Scottish Government

NDA Integrated Waste Management

INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF

WASTE CLASSIFICATION

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RE-USE / RECYCLEOUT-OF-SCOPE

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CHARACTERISATION RETRIEVALSORTING, SIZE

REDUCTION AND SEGREGATION

CONDITIONING TEMPORARY STORAGE TREATMENTPACKAGING TRANSPORTTRANSPORT DISPOSAL

SURFACE OR NEAR-

SURFACE DISPOSAL

CHARACTERISATION RETRIEVALSORTING, SIZE

REDUCTION AND SEGREGATION

CONDITIONING INTERIM STORAGE TREATMENTPACKAGING TRANSPORT DISPOSAL

NEAR SURFACE OR GEOLOGICAL

DISPOSAL

TRANSPORT

RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Waste lifecycle step common for all wastes

Waste lifecycle step applicable to some wastes

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