Twenty Second Annual Report of The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee

This report describes the work of RWMAC during 2001/2002. It also includes the Committee's formal response to the Government's "Managing the Nuclear Legacy" White Paper, that set out proposals for a new organisation - the Liabilities Management Authority (LMA) - to decommission and clean up some of the UK's older nuclear sites. See also this News Release.

This report is also available in Adobe Acrobat format (240kb) for downloading and printing.

Contents

Chapter

1. RWMAC and its work for Government

2. Developments in UK radioactive waste management policy

3. Regulation of radioactive waste

4. Conditioning, packaging and storage of ILW

5. RWMAC responses to consultation exercises under RSA93

6. Other consultation responses made by RWMAC

7. RWMAC working methods, organisation and administration

Annex 1 - Terms of reference and membership of RWMAC

Annex 2 - Membership of RWMAC Working Groups

Annex 3 - Register of RWMAC members' interests

Annex 4 - Expenditure by RWMAC 1 April 2001 - 31 March 2002

Annex 5 - RWMAC response to the White Paper - Managing the Nuclear Legacy

Annex 6 - Glossary of technical and other terms

Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, Member of Parliament
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ross Finnie, Member of the Scottish Parliament
Minister for Environment and Rural Development

Sue Essex, Assembly Member
Minister for the Environment, National Assembly for Wales

I have the honour, on behalf of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee, of submitting our Twenty Second Annual Report.

Professor Charles Curtis OBE
Chairman