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Low Level Waste 2008 - Presentations Now Available

LLW Repository Ltd held its annual low level waste forum on Wednesday 16th April 2008, at the Rheged Centre at...

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Site Overview
  • Support to NDA competition process and transition to a new Parent Body Organisation (PBO)
  • Decommissioning of Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) facilities with ongoing retrieval of uranium hexafluoride (Hex) cylinders, drums and secondary waste
  • Safe and cost-effective remediation and decommissioning of PCM facilities by 2010
  • Detailed design work for Vault 9 and planning for future Low Level Waste (LLW) storage/disposal capacity
  • Continuing LLW receipt, treatment, storage/disposal operations
  • Ongoing work to achieve consensus on site end state, radiological capacity of site and site assessment of closure measures