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Operational Strategy

The objectives of the LLW Repository Ltd Operational Strategy are to transform the LLW Repository Ltd from a storage and waste handling site to a fully integrated waste management operation, providing a full service across the broad spectrum of waste management activities in support of LLW Repository Ltd and consignor initiatives. The Strategy will continue to be developed using the following principles:

  • Disciplined and integrated implementation of the waste hierarchy
  • Minimising the burden on the environment from disposal of radioactive wastes by minimising volumes of waste destined for disposal through disciplined waste characterisation, segregation, and treatment.
  • Emplacing into LLWR vaults only those wastes that require multi-barrier containment for human health and environmental protection, promoting the best use of engineered disposal offered at the LLWR.

The strategic intent to address these challenges was first set out in the LLWR Initial Operational Strategy and subsequently updated in the LLWR Preliminary Operational Strategy. The Developed Operational Strategy has been issued and demonstrates that sufficient underpinning is now embedded to enable delivery of the strategy.

The Developed Operational Strategy is divided into three components:

  • Waste Management Innovations and Services
  • Site Operations and Assured Disposal
  • Remediation and Site Closure
The Developed Operation Strategy outlines the required LLW storage capacity at LLWR to meet the needs of the UK LLW producers, based on current LLW arisings.  It also provides the final strategic position which was first outlined in the two earlier strategies.  It sets out a series of recommendations to the NDA in order to support the optimal use of the LLWR.
 
This Operational Strategy is consistent with key National Strategy deliverables, including the results of the LLW Strategic Review, UK Nuclear Industry LLW Management Plan, and the emerging UK Nuclear Industry LLW Strategy by NDA.

Developed Operational Strategy (PDF)