Naturally occurring radioactive material

摘要

The UK has a strong policy framework for the sustainable and efficient management of low-level waste (LLW) in line with the 'waste hierarchy' principle (see Figure 1). In 2007, the Government published a joint policy statement which outlined the high-level framework for the implementation of this policy - this recognises that different LLW-producing industries face different challenges. A suite of strategy documents was developed to help deliver the policy and a nuclear strategy was published by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in 2010 and is currently being reviewed. The first part of a non-nuclear strategy (covering anthropogenic waste) was published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in 2012 but excluded naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) to enable further collation of arisings data. Part 2 of the non-nuclear strategy (covering NORM waste) was published in July 2014.