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Key Organisations

 

  Government sponsors of CoRWM
  Implementer of geological disposal
  Producers of radioactive waste
  Regulators
  Government advisers
  Local authority organisations
  NGOs
  Research councils
  Learned societies
  Skills development
  Parliament
 
 
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Government Sponsors of CoRWM

 

Department of Energy and Climate Change www.decc.gov.uk

Scottish Government www.scotland.gov.uk

Welsh Assembly Government www.new.wales.gov.uk

Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland www.doeni.gov.uk

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform www.berr.gov.uk/energy/sources/nuclear

 

 

Implementer of Geological Disposal

 

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (NDA RWMD)

www.nda.gov.uk

 

 

Organisations that produce and store Radioactive Wastes (and materials that may be declared waste)*

 

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Sites

 

Sellafield Ltd+ (Sellafield, Calder Hall*, Windscale*, Capenhurst*) www.sellafieldsites.co.uk

Magnox North Ltd+ (Chapelcross*, Hunterston A*, Trawsfynydd*, Wylfa, Oldbury)

www.magnoxnorthsites.com

Magnox South Ltd+ (Berkeley*, Bradwell*, Dungeness A*, Hinkley Point A*, Sizewell A*)

www.magnoxsouthsites.com

Dounreay* Site Restoration Ltd

www.dounreay.com

Research Sites Restoration Ltd (Harwell*, Winfrith*)

www.research-sites.com

Springfields Fuels Ltd+ www.nuclearsites.co.uk/sitephp?LocationID=2

LLWR (SLC) Ltd+ (Low Level Waste Repsoitory, near Drigg) www.llwrsite.com

 

British Energy Sites www.british-energy.com

 

Dungeness B

Hartlepool

Heysham

Hinkley Point B

Hunterston B

Sizewell B

Torness

 

Other Civil Nuclear Sites

 

GE Healthcare Ltd (Amersham, Cardiff, Harwell) www.amersham.com

Urenco (Capenhurst) Ltd+ www.urenco.com

Imperial College, Silwood Park*

Scottish Universities Research Reactor Centre (Glasgow)*

 

Defence Nuclear Sites

 

AWE plc+ (Aldermaston, Burghfield) www.awe.co.uk

BAE Systems Marine Ltd (Barrow-in-Furness) www.baesystems.com

Devonport Royal Dockyard+ www.devonport.co.uk

Rolls Royce Marine Power Operations Ltd (Derby) www.rolls-royce.com

Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd+ www.babcock.co.uk

Clyde Naval Base (Faslane) www.babcock.co.uk

 

Small users of radioactive materials

 

Hospitals, research laboratories, factories, oil and gas industry etc (about 4,000 premises in all) 

*indicates sites where nuclear operations have stopped and that are being decommissioned.

+owners of these organisations are shown here.

 

Regulators 

 

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) www.hse.gov.uk

Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear

Office of Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS) www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/ocns

UK Safeguards Office www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/safeguards

 

Environment Agencies

 

Environment Agency (England and Wales) www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) www.sepa.org.uk

Northern Ireland Environment Agency www.ni-environment.gov.uk

 

Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR)

 

Department for Transport Radioactive Materials Transport Division (RMTD) www.dft.gov.uk

 

Advisers to Government and its Agencies

 

Health Protection Agency (HPA) www.hpa.org.uk/radiation

Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) www.comare.org.uk

Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee (NuSAC) www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/hsc/iacs/nusac

 

Local Authority Organisations

 

Nuclear Legacy Advisory Forum (NuLeAF) www.nuleaf.org.uk

Local Government Association www.lga.giv.uk

Consortium of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) www.cosla.gov.uk

Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) www.wlga.gov.uk

 

NGOs

 

Friends of the Earth www.foe.co.uk

Greenpeace www.greenspace.co.uk

CND www.cnduk.org

Low Level Radiation Campaign www.llrc.org

 

Research Councils

 

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) www.epsrc.ac.uk

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) www.nerc.ac.uk

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) www.bbsrc.ac.uk

Medical Research Council (MRC) www.mrc.ac.uk

 

Learned Societies

 

Royal Society www.royalsociety.org

Geological Society www.geolsoc.org.uk

Royal Society of Chemistry www.rsc.org

 

Skills Development

 

Cogent Sector Skills Council www.cogent-ssc.com

National Skills Academy Nuclear (NSAN) www.nuclear.nsacademy.co.uk

 

Parliament

 

House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_t_select/corwm.cfm