RSRL Integrated Waste Strategy - Issue 5- Oct 2012.pdf

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED3 WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY, ORGANISATION &ARRANGEMENTS56. This section outlines the regulatory and policy framework against which the RSRL IWS hasbeen developed, along with the organisation and management arrangements for wasteswhich ensure compliance with this framework.3.1 Statement of Policy and Principles3.1.1 Principles of Waste Management at RSRL57. An overview of the Government policy, legislation and regulatory requirements relevant towaste management and disposal is given in Section 4.3 and Annex 3 to this IWS. Furtherdetails are provided in the Companion Document to the Integrated Waste StrategySpecification (ENG02, Rev 2, 2 August 2006).58. NDA considers that the following principles should underpin waste strategy [Source NDAIntegrated Waste Management Overview December 2009]:i) Give priority to reducing risk by retrieval and immobilisation of potentially mobilehistorical wastes stored on NDA sites;ii) Support the core NDA principles of protecting safety, security and the environment, andvalue for money;iii) Apply the Waste Hierarchy:← preferred approachless preferred approach →● avoid ● minimise ● re-use ● recycle ● disposeiv) Drive for ‘early’ waste solutions rather than leaving waste liabilities un-addressed. Wastemanagement activities must be integrated with other activities and take account of thesustainability principles;v) Decide how to manage wastes on the basis of business cases that take account ofPrinciples 1 to 4;vi) Engage with our stakeholders about potential and actual developments in wastemanagement from earliest stages.59. In addition to these key principles the following principles of policy are also consideredapplicable to management of waste on the RSRL’s sites. These derive from a number ofGovernment policies including The Decommissioning of the UK Nuclear Industry's Facilities,September 2004 (DTI Publication URN 04/1598) and Review of Radioactive WasteManagement Policy (CM 2919, 1995) and the Energy Act direction to the NDA regardingdecommissioning and clean-up of the sites :• Protection of the public, workforce and environment (Cm 2919 Paragraph 51)through:o Keeping radiological doses and environmental impact as low as reasonablyachievable, ALARA (Cm 5552)o Converting waste into a passively safe state as soon as practicableRSRL IWS (Issue 5 – October 2012)18