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Radioactive Waste: Waste Disposal

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 3 November 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which companies based in (a) France, (b) Sweden, (c) the United States and (d) the UK have made applications under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 for authorisation to dispose of low level nuclear waste in the UK; on what date each application was made; and what the status of each such application is. (295664)

Applications made under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 for authorisation to dispose of low level nuclear waste in the UK are listed in the following table by company and site. This list represents the most recent applications by these companies.

Application date

Company and premises

Status

November 2003

British Energy, Torness Power Station, (Now British Energy Generation Ltd, part of EDF Energy)

1

November 2003

British Energy, Hunterston B Power Station, (Now British Energy Generation Ltd, part of EDF Energy)

1

October 2006

Babcock Engineering Services, Rosyth Dockyard

1

November 2007 and June 2009

Magnox North Ltd, Chapelcross Works

2

April 2008

Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Dounreay

2

May 2009

Waste Recycling Ltd, Lillyhall Landfill Site Cumbria

2

July 2009

Auguean South Ltd, East Northants Resource Management facility, Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire

2

1 Determined and granted.

2 Being determined.