The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management

Scrutiny

• We scrutinise the work of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and other owners of higher activity radioactive waste
• We cover all the steps needed for the long-term management of these wastes

Treatment
Storage
Transport
Disposal  

• We scrutinise the UK Government’s work in finding a site for geological disposal for most of the country’s higher activity wastes
• We hold meetings with waste owners, regulators, Governments and groups of stakeholders and review documents these organisations produce
• We visit UK nuclear sites and talk to local people, site managers and staff
• We keep in touch with developments in other countries

Advice

• All our formal advice is to Government. It is mostly given in our major reports but can also be in shorter documents such as position papers.
• We also give informal advice, both verbally and in writing, to Government, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and others.
• We use various procedures for gathering and checking the evidence that underlies our advice. For the formal advice we usually consult stakeholders in order to understand their views and publish drafts on this website for wider comment.

Details of our procedures are in Types of Advice (doc. 2806) Size: [19.67 KB] File Type: [.pdf]

Openness and transparency

We are committed to openness and transparency in our work.

• All our substantive decisions are made at plenary meetings that are open to the public.
• All our documents are published unless there are specific reasons for confidentiality.

All of our work is supported by Guiding Principles (doc. 2248) Size:[54.8 KB] File Type: [.pdf] and our Publication Scheme (doc. 2249) Size:[110.81 KB] File Type: [.pdf].

Meetings: Explanations of our plenary and other meetings are in the Meetings section
All reports, plenary papers and other documents are available in the Document store