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CoRWM has continued to advise SG on HAWIS and scrutinised the process of developing HAWIS. This paper summarises CoRWM’s work and comments on how HAWIS has progressed and the issues CoRWM considers SG needs to address in the further development of HAWIS.
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Date of Publication: 23/10/2012
URN: 3063
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|, Progress Reporting|, Meetings with Government|

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This paper is a response to a request from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for CoRWM’s advice on the 2011 review of options for accelerating the geological disposal programme carried out by the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
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Date of Publication: 18/07/2012
URN: 3006
Tags: Reports to Government|, CoRWM Position Papers|

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CoRWM has carried out an assessment of the generic Disposal System Safety Case (gDSSC) published by the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in February 2011. The assessment covered the whole suite of gDSSC documents, and related RWMD reports on research and development (R&D) and site characterisation.
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Date of Publication: 19/03/2012
URN: 2994
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|

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This paper contains CoRWM’s comments on the report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology (HoLSTC) on nuclear research and development (R&D) capabilities (published in November 2011) and the Government response to that report (published in February 2012). The main purpose of the paper is to provide input to the further work by Government and the Government Chief Scientific Advisor outlined in the Government response.
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Date of Publication: 14/03/2012
URN: 2995
Tags: Reports to Government|, CoRWM Position Papers|

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This paper arises from a CoRWM meeting with Professor David MacKay, the DECC Chief Scientific Advisor, in August 2011. It raises a number of issues related to improving UK R&D arrangements relevant to the long-term management of higher activity wastes (HAW) and waste-related aspects of the long-term management of spent fuels and nuclear materials.
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Date of Publication: 19/12/2011
URN: 2973
Tags: Reports to Government|, CoRWM Position Papers|, Meetings with Government|

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Date of Publication: 07/10/2011
URN: 2975
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|, Others' Consultations|

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During 2009 the Scottish Government (SG) developed a proposed Detailed Statement of Policy for Scotland's Higher Activity Radioactive Waste (HAW). In 2010 it consulted the public about the proposed policy (SG 2010a-d) and then finalised it. The policy was published in January 2011 (SG 2011a-c). Throughout the policy development process CoRWM scrutinised the work of SG and provided advice (CoRWM docs. 2515.2, 2800). It also responded to the main SG consultation (CoRWM doc. 2795) and to the supplementary consultation (CoRWM doc. 2865). Summaries of CoRWM’s work on SG policy are contained in its annual reports (CoRWM docs. 2807, 2922). This paper provides further details including a brief history of SG and CoRWM work prior to 2010-11 and a description of CoRWM’s work in 2010-11. The Committee’s work in 2010-11 included information gathering and testing conclusions about SG’s policy development process and a review of the process by which SG developed its consultation programme and finalised its policy from 2009 to 2011.
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Date of Publication: 19/09/2011
URN: 2818
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|, Progress Reporting|

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This is the submission of evidence from CORWM to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry into Nuclear Research and Development Capabilities in April 2011.
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Date of Publication: 27/04/2011
URN: 2927
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|, Others' Consultations|

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The CoRWM Work Programme 2010-13 set out the intention to produce a position paper on the state of public and stakeholder engagement (PSE) in the management of higher activity waste. This paper scrutinises the PSE of Governments and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, although, in order to give a fuller picture, it also refers to the PSE of other organisations.
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Date of Publication: 09/03/2011
URN: 2850
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|

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The purpose of the first draft of this paper was to set out the issues raised by the NGOs so that CoRWM could discuss them at its November 2010 plenary meeting and decide whether to change its position statement and, if so, how. This final version of the paper includes a record of the Committee’s decision and the reasons for it, as well as the material in the first draft. The paper deals with the issues in Annex B in turn.
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Date of Publication: 26/11/2010
URN: 2867
Tags: CoRWM Position Papers|