Developed Operational Strategy - Low Level Waste Repository Ltd

LLWR Developed Operational Strategy10009/LLWR/LTP Date: March 20105.3 TransportationIn late 2009, LLW Repository Ltd began to coordinate waste transport and logistics between wasteconsignors, treatment facilities, and LLWR disposal facilities. This is consistent with the overall objectiveof providing a full waste service offering via the Consignor Support Organisation where Transport &Logistics will be integrated with a new secure web-based waste tracking and inventory managementsystem. This will enable LLW Repository Ltd. to co-ordinate and schedule waste movements fromconsignors via road, rail or sea, providing community assurance and more efficient, assured wasteservices.Progress in this area has been rapid - key achievements so far include;• Establishing a Transport & Logistics Section within the Consignor Support Organisation with thecapability to undertake all statutory duties associated with dispatch of waste to and from theRepository Site• Gained membership of two key transport related organisations; RADSAFE (national provider offirst response in the event of a transport incident) and the World Nuclear Transport Institute –WNTI, (in order to ensure that the interests of LLWR and NDA are represented in discussionswith transport regulators and key stakeholders).• Obtaining necessary approvals for LLW Repository Ltd to become the Licensing Authority for thecurrent fleet of LLW Transport & Disposal Containers• Setting up new container management services, including;– Container Lifting Assessment– Container Contents Restraint Assessment– Container Repair– Container Technical Inspections and Containment System Leak testing– Container (various designs) Overpack Service• Defining the requirements for new reusable LLW Transport packages to support new wastetreatment options.Segregated LLW is transported to the LLWR primarily by rail. Rail transport is desired to reduce lorrytraffic through the adjacent Drigg Village and it is the preferred mode of material movement to LLWR.LLWR is now working with consignors to facilitate rail transport or road-to-rail drop-offs (e.g. Port ofWorkington or Sellafield site). Facilitation of road and rail services is coordinated centrally by LLWRepository Ltd. At the end of 2009 a total of seventeen containers of segregated waste had beentransported to the Studsvik MRF at Lillyhall in West Cumbria. The transport to MRF (and subsequentreturn of empty containers for re-use) was by rail via Port of Workington. The following pictures showloading and unloading of the containers.Page 42 of 62