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Low Level Waste facilities and proposals in Cumbria

Low Level Waste facilities and proposals in Cumbria. NuLeAF seminar 22 March 2011 Richard Evans Cumbria County Council. Lessons learnt and questions. Uncertainty about what you’re committing to. How did we end up with the UK’s national LLW facility? Incremental proposals.

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Low Level Waste facilities and proposals in Cumbria

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  1. Low Level Waste facilities and proposals in Cumbria NuLeAF seminar 22 March 2011 Richard Evans Cumbria County Council

  2. Lessons learnt and questions • Uncertainty about what you’re committing to. How did we end up with the UK’s national LLW facility? • Incremental proposals. • Inventory, timescale and need for facilities? • What’s storage, what’s disposal? • Need LDF policies. • How do you deal with perception issues?

  3. Scene setter - is this your image of Cumbria?

  4. or is it this? “A county that has to confront enduring problems of social and economic decline that are unrivalled in the UK. Large parts of the county have a ravaged and vulnerable economy and it is the only county in the UK that is experiencing economic decline.” The first Cumbria Community Strategy

  5. Scene setter • Cumbria has a record going back to WW2 as the centre of the British nuclear industry. • Weapons programme. • Calder Hall the world’s 1st civil nuclear power station. • Most of country’s legacy of higher activity wastes is stored at Sellafield. • Low Level Waste Repository. • The only area to agree to participate in the search for a deep geological disposal facility (MRWS).

  6. What we already have

  7. Sellafield • On site Calder Landfill Extension Segregated Area (CLESA). • Formerly for inerts, then engineered containment for VLLW -120,000m3 remaining capacity.

  8. Studsvik metal recycling, Lillyhall • Until half way through the planning application process considered to require only EA permit. • Then HSE decided a Nuclear Site Licence was needed – conflict with Allerdale BC’s planning policy. • 77 objections, 2 supporters. • £9M investment, up to 30 jobs. Operational September 2009.

  9. Studsvik planning issues • West Cumbria one of the most relaxed areas in the country re nuclear issues. • General support for increase in skills for the nuclear industry and for waste hierarchy. • But very serious concerns about economic and social impacts due to perceptions of any type of radioactive waste. • On one of our major industrial estates.

  10. The Low Level Waste Repository, near Drigg.

  11. Proposals we know about

  12. Current LLW proposals • Environmental Permitting application to dispose of VLLW at Lillyhall landfill, Workington. CCC is advised planning permission not needed. • Planning application for a purpose built LLW/VLLW disposal facility at the Keekle Head former opencast coal site. County Council enforcement action to secure restoration of the site. • Imminent proposals at the Low Level Waste Repository.

  13. KEEKLE HEAD SELLAFIELD LLWR

  14. Lillyhall Env. Permit application • Disposal of solid, high volume, very low level waste (HV-VLLW) from nuclear sites, to 2031. • Burial alongside non-radioactive controlled wastes - up to 26,000 m3/year HV-VLLW out of estimated 67,000 m3/year total disposals. • Maximum disposal 582,000 m3 HV-VLLW. • Site proposed for additional landfill capacity in MWDF. 1993 planning permission requires restoration by 2014.

  15. Lillyhalllandfill

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