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
- 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.
- 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