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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED103. Technical representatives from RSRL attend the Nuclear Waste Research Forum(NWRF), a forum that discusses all aspects of R&D with each NDA site, regulators andNDA, RWMD. One of the main objectives of NWRF is to review the NDA site TBuRDdocuments to identify common R&D requirements.3.3.5 Skills, Records and Interfaces with Other Sites104. RSRL produces a skills strategy for submission to NDA which, as a minimum, covers:key skills required in the short, medium, and long term; identification of skills gaps and linksto the migration of the existing workforce; sensitivities relating to demographic change;recruitment and training strategies; links with training providers; succession planning; andsupply chain strategies for long-term availability of skills. Each skills strategy also includes atechnical competency framework which incorporates key technical areas including wastemanagement. The sites' skills strategies are analysed and developed by the NDA to ensurethe appropriate supporting infrastructure is in place, and that any key issues or skills gapsare identified.105. The management of records and information is documented in a site “RecordsManagement” Procedure, and the waste management performance reporting sections of theprocedures for the management of radioactive waste, non-radioactive waste, liquid andgaseous waste. These are all available on the intranet.106. The interfaces with other sites relating to waste are managed in a variety of ways:• Handshakes are being developed or are in place to dispatch or receive waste fromother NDA sites. The current status of transfer arrangements with other sites aredocumented in the table in Section 4.5.3, ‘Interactions with Other Sites andOrganisations’.• The transfer of LLW to the LLWR is covered by a contract between LLW RepositoryLtd and RSRL. The contract was renewed in April 2012.• Individual agreements are in place with a variety of waste brokers, waste carriersand waste management contractors for the purposes of reuse, recycling or disposalof a variety of non-radioactive waste types from RSRL sites. These include metalscrap yards, incineration, inert landfill, non-hazardous landfill and hazardous landfill.RSRL IWS (Issue 5 – October 2012)32