Performance Updates
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Site Progress Key
On target |
On target |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target |
Behind target |
Safety and Environmental Performance Key
| Nuclear Safety | |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more INES Level 1 or above in the month |
| Industrial Safety | |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more RIDDOR reportable events in the month |
| Environmental Safety |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more environmental non compliances in the month |
Low Level Waste Repository
LLW Repository near Drigg
Holmrook
Cumbria
CA19 1XH
Tel. 01946 724800
This Low Level Waste (LLW) Repository has operated as a national LLW disposal facility since 1959. Wastes are compacted and placed in containers before being transferred to the facility. Following a major upgrade of disposal operations in 1995, all LLW is now disposed of in engineered concrete vaults.
Plutonium Contaminated Materials are being removed from the site for long-term storage at nearby Sellafield.
Overview
| Age | Operated from 1959 |
|---|---|
| Site Stakeholder Group | West Cumbria Sites Stakeholder Group |
| Site Licensee | LLW Repository Ltd |
| Parent Body Organisation | UK Nuclear Waste Management Limited |
| Status | Operational |
| Cost - Lifetime (total discounted nuclear liability) |
£252m |
* The costs of discharging the nuclear liability will be incurred over a significant period of time. To take account of the time value of money, the costs are "discounted" back to a present value. Effectively this is the amount that would need to be invested today, at a set rate of interest (the discount rate) in order to pay for the liability in the future as it falls due.
| Year | Key Activities |
|---|---|
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2080 |
Final site clearance achieved |
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2018 |
PCM facilities removal complete |
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2007 - |
Engineered vaults construction |
Progress against this year's targets
Status as at end Quarter 3 (end December 2011) - next update due April 2012
Integrated Waste Management
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
Decommissioning of Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) facilities |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind Schedule. LLWR are looking at ways to recover slippage
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Introduction of new LLW packaging containers |
On target |
Complete |
Segregated Waste and Disposal services |
On target |
On track |
Submission of the Environmental Safety Case (ESC) to Environment Agency |
On target |
Complete. ESC has been submitted to the Environment Agency. |
Work with consigning Site Licence Companies (SLCs) to further implement the LLW Strategy (ACCELS) |
On target |
On track - Note: The title ACCELS has now been dropped and we are now just referencing to this as our National Programme for implementation of the UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste from the Nuclear Industry (published August 2010) |
Safety and Environmental Performance
Status as at end Quarter 3 (end December 2011) - next update due April 2012
