What is the UK Low Level Waste Repository?
Published at 15:54, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 THE UK Low Level Waste Repository is a key player in the drive to clean up Britain’s nuclear legacy. Low-level waste makes up more than 90 per cent of the UK’s waste legacy by volume but contains less than 0.0003 per cent of total radioactivity, according to Government figures. So how we dispose of it is crucial. It mostly consists of paper, plastics and scrap metal items used in hospitals, research establishments and the nuclear industry but increasingly it will include soil, concrete and steel as existing installations are decommissioned. The team at the repository, spread across a coastal site of 100 hectares six miles South of Sellafield, will play a central role in the safe classification, treatment and storage of this waste for the UK. The contract agreed between UKNWM and the NDA includes efficient operation at LLWR and adds the important dimension of working under the NDA’s leadership to develop and implement an effective and efficie
