Low level wastes on the Sellafield site (closed February 2008)

A public consultation was held from November 2007 to February 2008 on the best practicable options for treatment of low level waste oils, metals, combustible materials, process wastes, asbestos and high volume low activity wastes.

All the consultation documents, reports and the final BPEO reports are below. 
   
 
Low Level Waste Brochure  

Radioactive waste oils workshop - 2 November 2007:

Introductory presentation
Technical presentation
Questionnaire responses
Final report of external workshop
Final report of internal workshop


Radioactive waste metals workshop - 21 November 2007:

Introductory presentation
Technical presentation
Questionnaire responses
Final report of external workshop
Final report of internal workshop


Process waste workshop - 10 December 2007:

Introductory presentation
Technical presentation
Questionnaire responses
Final report of external workshop
Final report internal workshop


Asbestos workshop - 22 January 2008 :

Introductory presentation
Technical presentation
Questionnaire responses
Final external workshop
Final internal workshop


HVLA workshop - 12 February 2008:

Introductory presentation
Presentation waste definition
Presentation risk assessment
Technical presentation
Presentation contaminated land
Questionnaire responses
Final external report
Final internal report


Final workshop reports:

In March a final workshop was held to consider any themes, synergies or opportunities that may have arisen from the previous workshops. A summary report can be found below

Final workshop report 


BPEO summary reports:

Radioactive waste metals
Radioactive waste oils
Process waste

We have chosen not to prepare a HVLA BPEO report at this stage because of the nature of the challenge, and further work is required.