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.