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This webpage contains two types of documents, those produced by or on behalf of participants in the SAFEGROUNDS Learning Network and those produced independently of SAFEGROUNDS and that are included here at the suggestion of participants.
Review and Commentary on Site End-points and Radioactively Contaminated Land Management
This document results from discussions from within the SAFEGROUNDS Learning Network. It provides an opening position that describes the key issues associated with site end-points on radiological contaminated land. It is not meant to be a detailed, exhaustive and consensual document, rather a commentary on the current views. This has been a useful review of what was identified as an important issue for the SAFEGROUNDS community.
SAFEGROUNDS advocacy issues
On behalf of project participants, CIRIA wrote to the Department of Trade and Industry about these issues, because this was identified as the most appropriate government department to begin to deal with them.
Open letter from SITF to DTI about issues raised in SAFEGROUNDS
In the first phase of the SAFEGROUNDS project its steering group drew the attention of the Safety Issues Task Force (SITF) to a problem with the regulatory framework for contaminated land on nuclear sites. The chairman of the SITF wrote an open letter to the head of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Atomic Energy Division to ask the DTI to pursue the issue with other government departments and agencies.
Wobbly science and unrecognised risks
An essay by Richard Bramhall of the Low Level Radiation Campaign. He argues that there are such large uncertainties about the health risks of radiation, especially from radioactive materials taken into the body, that it is not possible at present to set numerical standards for delicensing nuclear sites.
DTI's Liabilities Management Group and Safety Issue Task Force
This note by Andy Thomas of BNFL summarises the history and work of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Liabilities Management Group and its Safety Issues Task Force. The latter initiated SAFEGROUNDS and continues to be one of its sponsors.
There maybe trouble ahead
A presentation by Graham Smith (Enviros) and Chris Busby (Green Audit) on operational risk criteria and challenges to the ICRP model. This was presented during the SAFEGROUNDS with SD:SPUR conference on 12-13 March 2007.
Safety indicators for the safety assessment of radioactive waste disposal
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), September 2003
The reports of the Working Group on Principles and Criteria for Radioactive Waste Disposal contain the developing views of experts within the international community and should be of use to those engaged in producing national and international standards and guidance in this area. However, they should not be seen as representing a ‘Member State consensus’ on the subjects being discussed.
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Advice to Ministers on Management of Low Activity Solid Radioactive Wastes within the United Kingdom
Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC), March 2003
In this report the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) makes a number of recommendations about the large volumes of low activity solid wastes that will arise when decommissioning of the UK’s redundant nuclear facilities and clean-up of radioactively contaminated sites get fully underway. The committee believes that there is a need for a strategic review of UK policy on managing these wastes.
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Radioactive waste disposal implications of extending part IIA to cover radioactively contaminated land
DEFRA, July 2003
This is a shortened version of a report prepared for DEFRA’s Radioactively Contaminated Land Steering Group. It highlights the difficulties in using landfills for disposal of wastes generated by remediation of radioactively contaminated land and points out that there is limited radiological capacity at Drigg for some of these wastes.
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Profile of land uses which may have been subject to radiological contamination – consultation document
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, April 2004
The purpose of the publication is to provide regulators, developers, consultants and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on the likely occurrence of radiological ground contamination in the UK as a result of certain industrial practices.
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Stakeholder dialogues on nuclear issues
The Environment Council
This discusses the work The Environment Council has down with a variety of stakeholders on nuclear issues. The table includes details of the projects in terms of stakeholders, project timescale along with a brief summary and web links where available.
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The Consensus Conference on Protection of the Environment
Nordic Nuclear Safety Research (NKS), October 2001
The conference was part of the Radiation Protection in the 21st Century: Ethical, Philosophical and Environmental Issues seminar held between 22-25th October 2001 . It provided a forum for discussion of current issues in radiation protection and the environment, input into international developments related to the protection of the environment, and to encourage wider participation in the debate.
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