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Fifteenth Annual Report of Radioactive Waste Managament Advisory Commission
| Author | RWMAC |
| Date | May 1995 |
| Classification | 2.05.4.10/35 (UNITED KINGDOM - WASTE - NIREX/NDA DECOMMISIONING) |
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Chapter 1 The RWMAC Work Programme Terms of reference 1.1 This document, the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC), focuses chiefly on developments during the calendar year 1994. The Committee's terms of reference and a list of its Members is given in Annex 1. Programme Responses to consultations 1.2 The aspects of radioactive waste management to which the Committee devoted most time during the year were related to a number of Government consultations. The Committee prepared responses to the Department of the Environment's (DoE's) consultation document on the Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy (1) and the joint Departmental-Agency consultation document on Guidance on Requirements for Authorisation of Disposal Facilities on Land for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Wastes 2 .Both consultation documents were released in August 1994 in the general context of the Nuclear Review3 , which was announced on 19 May 1994 by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Scottish Office Industry Department. The RWMAC's responses to these consultations were released in May 1995 and are considered in Chapter 2 of this document. Forward Look Historical Review 1.3 The RWMAC had been requested by the Minister for the Environment and Countryside in late 1991, when the Committee had just been reconstituted, to carry out a study of the radioactive waste management policy issues which were likely to arise during the next twenty years. The Committee came to the opinion that it was necessary, in the light of the nature of the issues involved, to take a view over a much longer period of time. This Review of Radioactive Management Issues: The RWMAC's Forward Look4 was completed during the year. As part of the work programme associated with the development of the Review, the Committee also undertook a backwards look in time and has written in parallel a Historical Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy and Practices5. Both documents were released in May 1995 and are considered in Chapter 3 of this document. Substitution 1.4 On 1 October 1993, the Minister for the Environment and Countryside requested further advice on British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL's) proposals to "substitute" an additional amount of high level radioactive waste in lieu of larger volumes of low and intermediate level wastes when the Company exercised the return of waste clauses contained in the nuclear fuel reprocessing contracts of overseas customers. Specifically, the RWMAC was asked whether BNFL's proposals were likely to be broadly environmentally neutral. The RWMAC submitted its further advice on substitution on 4 July 1994 and this was published in the DoE's consultation document in August 1994 and is reproduced in Annex 2 of this document. In summary, the Committee:
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