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RWMAC Reports and Publications

• a. available on website:
  • Annual Reports
  • Other publications
• b. Available by post

a. Available on website

Annual Reports

• Twenty Third Annual Report of The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee for 2002/2003 (December 2003)

• Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee for 2001/2002 (November 2002)

• Twenty-First Annual Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee for 2000/2001 (October 2001)

• Twentieth Annual Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee for 1999/2000 (November 2000)

Other Publications

• RWMAC Review of Current Issues and Priorities in Radioactive Waste Management (September 2004)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Response to the Government's public consultation on Modernising Policy for Decommissioning the UK's Nuclear Facilities (February 2004)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee’s Response to the Draft Nuclear Sites and Radioactive Substances Bill (December 2003)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee’s Advice to Ministers on the Application of Partitioning and Transmutation in the UK (December 2003)

• Review of the Regulation of Nuclear Safety and the Management of Radioactive Materials and Radioactive Waste within the United Kingdom: Structures and Principles of the Regulation of Civil Nuclear Licensed Sites (joint NuSAC/RWMAC report) (May 2003)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee’s Advice to Ministers on Management of Low Activity Solid Radioactive Wastes within the United Kingdom (March 2003)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee’s Advice to Ministers on The United Kingdom Radioactive Waste Inventory (March 2003)

• RWMAC's Response to the Government's Consultation Document: "Managing Radioactive Waste Safely" (June 2002)

• Current Arrangements and Requirements for the Conditioning, Packaging and Storage of Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste: Report of a Joint Study by the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee and the Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee (NuSAC) (June 2002)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Ministers on the Restoration of the UKAEA Dounreay Nuclear Site (September 2001)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Committee's Advice to Ministers on the Process for Formulation of Future Policy for the Long Term Management of UK Solid Radioactive Waste (September 2001)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Ministers on the Ministry of Defence's Radioactive Waste Management and Practices (July 2001)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Ministers on: The Radioactive Waste Implications of Reprocessing (November 2000)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Ministers on: The Problems of "Small Users" of Radioactive Materials (September 2000)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Ministers on: The Ministry of Defence's Arrangements for Dealing with Radioactively Contaminated Land (August 2000)

Available by post

Details of the availability of the reports listed below can be obtained from The RWMAC Secretariat, Zone 4/F4, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. Note that some of the earlier reports are now out of print.

All 1997, 1998 and 1999 reports are still in print. Details, including price are available from:
Publications Sales Centre
Cambertown House
Goldthorpe Industrial Estate
Goldthorpe
Rotherham S63 9BL

Telephone 01709 891318
Fax 01709 881673

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Nineteenth Annual Report (August 1999)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Response to The House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Report on the Management of Nuclear Waste (May 1999, published in August 1999)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice to Government on: Establishing Consensus on the Results of Science Programmes into the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (May 1999)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Review of: Radioactive Particles at UKAEA Dounreay (March 1999)

• The Radioactive Waste Managements Advisory Committee's: Review of Radioactive Waste Management Issues at UKAEA Dounreay (December 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice on: The Interim Report of the High Level Waste and Spent Fuel Disposal Research Strategy Project (November 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice on: The scope and content of the core scientific research programme on intermediate level radioactive waste disposal (October 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's- Report on: Radioactive Waste Management Practices in Spain (September 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Advice on: Issues which need to be addressed in the Guidance to be given to the Environment Agencies on the Principles for determining Radioactive Waste Discharge Authorisations - the "Principles Document" (July 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's:- Eighteenth Annual Report (July 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Initial Recommendations on: The Long Term Management of Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste following Rejection of the UK Nirex Rock Characterisation Facility Planning Application: "Rethinking Disposal" (January 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Radioactive Waste Management Practices in Switzerland (January 1998)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Review of the Ministry of Defence's Radioactive Waste Management and Practices (December 1997)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Report on the Import and Export of Radioactive Waste (September 1997)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Report on Categorisation of Solid Radioactive Wastes (September 1997)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Seventeenth Annual Report (July 1997)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Response on Nirex's Proposals for Publication and Peer Review (January 1997)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Study Tour of Sweden and Finland (September 1996)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Sixteenth Annual Report (July 1996)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Review of Problems Encountered by Small Users of Radioactive Substances: For Better or for Worse? (February 1996)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Review of aspects of the scientific mission and role of the Nirex Rock Characterisation Facility at Sellafield (September 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: -Fifteenth Annual Report (June 1995)

• COMARE/RWMAC Report on: Potential Health Effects and Possible Sources of Radioactive Particles Found in the Vicinity of the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment (May 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Response on The Department of the Environment's Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy (April 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's Response on HMIP's Consultative Document: Disposal Facilities on Land for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Wastes (April 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Response to the Department of Trade and Industry's Nuclear Review (April 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Historic Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy and Practices (April 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Review of Radioactive Waste Management Issues: The RWMAC's Forward Look (April 1995)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Fourteenth Annual Report (June 1994)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Study Tour of France (June 1994)

• A RWMAC Commentary on the Science Policy Research Unit Report: UK Nuclear Decommissioning Policy: Time for Decision (April 1994)

• Review of the Department of the Environment's National Radiation Monitoring Strategy (January 1994)

• Review of the Department of the Environment's Research Programme on Radioactive Substances (November 1993)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Thirteenth Annual Report (May 1993)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Study Tour of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic [formerly Czechoslovakia] (May 1993)

• Response by the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee to: UK Nirex Limited's Consultative Document on A Rock Characterisation Facility (February 1993)

• Response by the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee to: UK Nirex Limited's Consultative Documents on the Sellafield Repository (April 1992)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Twelfth Annual Report (August 1991)

• Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee subgroup on: Safety assessment modelling for deep disposal sites for low and intermediate level radioactive waste (1990)

• "Wastewatchers" - The First Decade of the RWMAC (August 1990)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Eleventh Annual Report (August 1990)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Tenth Annual Report (November 1989)

• Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee subgroup on: The Nirex proposals for deep site investigation (1988)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Ninth Annual Report (July 1988)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Eighth Annual Report (September 1987)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Seventh Annual Report (June 1986)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Sixth Annual Report (June 1985)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Fifth Annual Report (June 1984)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Fourth Annual Report (June 1983)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Third Annual Report (May 1982)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: Second Annual Report (May 1981)

• The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's: First Annual Report (May 1980)