NuLeAF Seminar

NDA Integrated Waste Management Strategy Programme update

24th October 2012

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Integrated Waste Management

LLW ILW HLW

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Past Practices

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HAW Baseline (Each site)

Retrievals Treatment, conditioning &

packaging

, Interim storage

GDF

HAW Strategy

GDF

Characterise

Sort and Segregation

Opportunities

LLWR / Exempt

Consider Options

Site solutions:e.g.•Treatment•Decay storage•Support to risk reduction programmes

•Robust storage

UK Solutions:e.g. •Waste processing services

•Consolidated Storage including decay storage

(..where required) Select optimised storage regime:

Package & Store

Alternative Disposal Option(s)

NOT FOR SCOTTISH WASTE

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A) HAW Treatment– Thermal treatment– Regional and Mobile Treatment

B) HAW Storage– Long term storage guidance– Storage co-location and consolidation– Self shielding containers

C) HAW Disposal– Geological disposal– Other HAW disposal options (Scottish HAW Policy)

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D) Waste Groups– Graphite waste management– Alpha waste management

E) LLW Disposal– VLLW and lower activity waste– Environmental Safety Case– Ensuring best use of LLWR into the future

F) Support to other NDA Themes– Decommissioning strategies– On-site disposal– Co-location

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G) Revised NDA Strategy Documents– IWM Plan– NDA Strategy III

• Others

– Support to Scottish Government on Higher Activity

Waste Strategy

– Integrated Waste Strategies

– Discharges: how OSPAR commitments affect our

strategic decision making

ILW Storage at Magnox

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Waste storage - Storage concepts

• Thin walled package• Shielded store

• Shielded package• Thin walled store

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Waste storage - Storage concepts

MiniStores ContainerRWMD Container

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Stakeholder engagement

• Project has just been initiated and involves Magnox and EdF Energy sites

• The work will take into consideration other Magnox strategic programmes

• Programme rather than individual task approach to Stakeholder Engagement

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ILW / LLW Cross-Boundary Wastes

Slides courtesy of LLWR

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ILW / LLW Cross-Boundary wastes defined as those wastes at either side of the LLW radiological classification boundary that could practicably be

managed either as LLW or ILW.

• Wide range of management approaches can be employed (e.g. decay storage, decontamination, encapsulation, optimised disposal etc.)

• Similarly diverse range of factors used by SLCs to optioneer management approach for their wastes (e.g. cost, schedule, ALARP, environmental factors, waste characteristics, availability of waste route etc.)

• SLCs have indicated that there is an absence of centralised guidance on the factors to consider when making waste management decisions for cross-boundary wastes.

• LLWR led task

Issue

Elements of position paper

Inventory Review

Lifecycle cost model

Compilation of non-cost

decision making factors

Pros / Cons of management approaches

Decision-making logic (“toolkit”) showing relationships between factors and if / how combinations of factors drive

certain decisions.

OUTPUT – Position paper and recommendations on the management of waste close to LLW / ILW categorisation boundary.