KINGS CLIFFE WASTE WATCHERS
Government Documents
This page will have links to Government documentation that forms the basis of the proposal. Click each image to access the full document.
The NDA
The Nuclear Decomissioning Authority are responsible for the whole process of decomissioning nuclear facilities.
This consultation document looks at possible ways of dealing with the disposal of Low Level waste.
The consultation process contained in this document has now ended, and the NDA are due to report their findings early in 2010.
This is significant as their recommendations will come after the planning decision for King's Cliffe has been made, which seems to Wastewatchers to be the wrong way round.
The HPA
The Health Protection Agency look at the likely impacts of the dumping of radioactive waste on public health.
They are paid consultes of Augean for this application, and are a Government agency.
They deny that they are responsible for the protection of health, but merely give advice on health to the Government.
The EA
The Environment Agency are crucially important in this process.
- They are tasked by the Government to be in charge of the disposal-to-landfill option for radioactive waste.
- They have drawn up the plans and guidance for disposal
- They have advised Augean, and appeared with them in the public exhibition
- They will issue the authorisation for the site
- They will be the regulators for the site
- They will be the external monitors for the site
Some might say they are taking on too much...
DEFRA
The Department of the Environment will have the final say in the process, and it may well be the Secetary of State who will make the decision.
This document seems to have set the ball rolling in the rush to dispose of LLW.
RSA 1993
This is the Act under which the application is made.
While, in the first instance, the application is subject to normal planning laws, this Act gives the Government the right to make any decision regarding the placement of radioactive materials.
This might seem to be final, but the question is whether the Government will choose to invoke it if public opinion is hugely against it.
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