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Guidance and reports

SEPA guidance

Guidance on decommissioning of non-nuclear facilities

Principles on Surrendering Permits and Registrations under the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Satisfying the optimisation requirement and the role of best practicable means

Guidance on monitoring for heterogeneous Radium-226 sources resulting from historic luminising or waste disposal sites

Management of end-of-life smoke detectors

Joint guidance

Management of radioactive waste from decommissioning of nuclear sites: Guidance on Requirements for Release from Radioactive Substances Regulation (the GRR)

Non-technical summary of the GRR

Regulatory expectations for successful land quality management at nuclear licensed sites

Principles for the assessment of prospective public doses arising from authorised discharges of radioactive waste to the environment (revised October 2019)

Standardised reporting of radioactive discharges from nuclear sites in Scotland – Radiological Monitoring Technical Guidance Note 1 (revised October 2019)

Environmental radiological monitoring in Scotland – Radiological Monitoring Technical Guidance Note 2 (revised October 2019)

Management of radioactive waste from decommissioning of nuclear sites: Guidance on Requirements for Release of nuclear sites from Radioactive Substances Regulation (GRR): Technical Q&A

Joint Guidance on Management of Higher Activity Waste

Updated Position Statement on HAW

Near-surface Disposal Facilities on Land for Solid Radioactive Wastes Guidance on Requirements for Authorisation February 2009 (The near-surface GRA)

Reports

Title

Inspection of RWM’s disposability assessment process for the management of HAW in Scotland

Review of the application of 'Best Practicable Means' within a regulatory framework for the management of radioactive wastes

Report repository

The following reports are available on request.

Title

Scotoil appeal - decision document from Scottish ministers

Scotoil appeal - report to Scottish ministers

Strategy for the assessment of the potential impact of Sellafield radioactive particles on Southwest Scotland

Tritium in Scottish landfill sites

Assessment of radioactive discharges to sewer by the non-nuclear industry in Scotland

Managing radioactive waste safely. Proposals for developing a policy for managing solid radioactive waste in the UK

Managing the nuclear legacy. A strategy for action

Dounreay Reports:

An evaluation of the sensitivity of the Groundhog Evolution Beach Monitoring System

Radiometric analysis of radioactive particles

Review of the procedures currently used for the monitoring of Sandside Bay

Simulation of human stomach and intestine leaching of Dounreay hot particles

Dounreay household dust report

Dounreay Particles Advisory Group 1st report

Dounreay Particles Advisory Group 2nd report

Dounreay Particles Advisory Group 3rd report

Dounreay Particles Advisory Group 4th report - full

Public health implications of fragments of irradiated fuel – module 2a

Health implications of Dounreay fuel fragments: estimates of doses and risks

Public health implications of fragments of irradiated fuel – module 2b

Public health implications of fragments of irradiated fuel – module 3

Public health implications of fragments of irradiated fuel – module 4

Health implications of fragments of irradiated fuel at the beach at Sandside Bay – module 6