Oct 23 2005
CIRIA has released a good practice guidance on the application of sustainable practices to the management of decommissioning wastes from nuclear licensed sites
The SD:SPUR Main guidance is the outcome of the CIRIA managed SD:SPUR project which ran for 20 months from November 2003. It provides guidance to waste managers and strategy developers on nuclear sites on how they can explicitly incorporate the concepts of sustainability and the waste hierarchy into their decision-making procedures when identifying options for the management of assets, and radiologically clean and slightly radioactive decommissioning wastes.
Throughout the preparation of this guidance, it was recognised that stakeholders, both individuals and organisations, hold a range of diverse but legitimate views on the issue of the reuse and recycling of wastes from nuclear sites. The SD:SPUR project worked closely with stakeholder groups including the nuclear and defence industries; NGOs and community based organisations; government bodies (including regulators, local authorities and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority); the construction and demolition industries; and other organisations, including universities.
This guidance, although non-statutory, has been developed with the support of the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive, and in consultation with the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. The guidance has been developed to be directly applicable to, and complementary with, the methodological requirements of developing site Integrated Waste Strategy (IWS).