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Enquiry into the management of Nuclear Waste. A Note on the future process of developing an underground radioactive waste disposal facility. Supplementary written evidence
| Author | RWMAC |
| Date | July 1998 |
| Classification | 2.05.4.10/45 (UNITED KINGDOM - WASTE - NIREX/NDA DECOMMISIONING) |
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From the publication:
NOTE ON THE FUTURE PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING AN UNDERGROUND RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY 1. Introduction The RWMAC’s favoured option for the long-term management of intermediate and high level radioactive waste (IL Wand HLW) within the United Kingdom is disposal to a deep underground repository. This note sets out further RWMAC thinking on the arrangements that would be necessary to secure development of such a deep underground repository. It develops thinking set out in the RWMAC publication "Rethinking" Disposal and written evidence supplied for the House of Lords Select Committee enquiry into Nuclear Waste Management. It is important that any new arrangements address the problems encountered by UK Nirex Ltd in their previous efforts to develop an ILW radioactive waste repository. The RWMAC's analysis of these problems is set out in Annex 1. 2. The solution the RWMAC has proposed The key features of the improvements RWMAC has proposed are: - for the national process for developing a repository to be enshrined into an Act of Parliament. This will give the process more backbone than it has had in the past - the establishment under the Act of a Quality Plan to flesh out the Act's provisions, a Statutory Repository Board and an Executive Disposal Company - the Quality Plant to be produced by Government on the basis of advice from other relevant bodies, including the Statutory Repository Board, must ensure that all roles and responsibilities are fully defined, that the programme and milestones leading to the selection of the repository site are clear, and that there is adequate provision to ensure that the whole process is open and transparent - the role of Statutory Board is to facilitate implementation of the process of repository development. The key point about the Board is that it should be demonstrably independent of the other players so as to promote public confidence - the role of the Executive Disposal Company is essentially to develop the repository on the basis of procedures defined in the Act and Quality Plan according to the more detailed advice/requirements of the Statutory Repository Board, the planning authorities and the regulatory bodies. The Company must be demonstrably more independent of the nuclear industry than Nirex has been in the past.
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