Radioactive Waste Policy Group (RWPG)
RWPG is the UK Radioactive Waste Policy Group on which UK Government departments, the devolved administrations, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the principal regulatory bodies (Health and Safety Executive and the environment agencies) are represented.
Rolling summary: current components of the UK radioactive waste management policy
The Government White Paper "Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy (CM 2919)" published in July 1995 set out the conclusions of the then Government's review of radioactive waste management policy.
Since many of the policies in the 1995 White Paper would now be out-of-date the RWPG, in a meeting in 2004, decided that a rolling summary of all the current components of the radioactive waste management policy in the UK should be developed and maintained:
Management of information relating to UK radioactive waste
The Radioactive Waste Policy Group of Defra (RWPG) has recently endorsed a strategy for the Management of information relating to UK radioactive waste, which will be taken forward by the issue of Joint Regulatory Guidance:
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Page last modified: 19 September 2007
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