The Decommissioning and Waste Management team (D&WMS) provides specialist radioactive waste management consultancy and integrated waste-led decommissioning solutions to nuclear operators across the UK. We help clients safely reduce hazard, optimise waste routes and deliver more efficient decommissioning programmes through practical, compliant and innovative waste management strategies.
With vast experience in supporting decommissioning UK nuclear licensed sites, we understand the challenges of managing radioactive waste from both an owner-operator and project delivery perspective. This enables us to provide solutions that are technically robust, regulatory-compliant and aligned with the long-term objectives of our clients.
Supporting nuclear licensed sites across the UK in the delivery of hazard reduction, decommissioning and waste management programmes. Our experience spans waste retrieval, waste characterisation, packaging strategies, remediation projects and the development of tailored waste management solutions for complex legacy facilities.
Through access to our global expertise and technologies, we bring industry-leading knowledge and practical lessons learned from some of the world's most challenging nuclear environments.
At D&WMS, we believe that successful decommissioning starts with understanding the waste challenge.
Our waste-led approach integrates waste management considerations into every stage of a project, helping clients reduce lifecycle risk, improve programme certainty and identify the safest and most effective pathways for treatment, storage and disposal.
By addressing waste management early, we help clients:
We develop integrated waste management strategies aligned with UK legislation, industry good practice and national waste policy requirements. Our team works closely with customers to establish practical solutions that balance operational, regulatory and commercial considerations.
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A robust understanding of waste is fundamental to successful waste management and decommissioning.
D&WMS provides specialist characterisation support to define waste inventories, understand waste stream characteristics and identify appropriate management routes throughout the project lifecycle.
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Selecting the right waste management route is critical to reducing cost, programme risk and long-term liability.
Our specialists provide waste routing assessments and optioneering studies to identify the most appropriate treatment, storage and disposal pathways for each waste stream.
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Our waste management capability is supported by experienced Radiation Protection Advisers (RPAs) and Radioactive Waste Advisers (RWAs), providing a fully integrated service for radiological projects.
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D&WMS Waste Operations team handle the on-site customer facing interactions of Waste Management.
Our team can be instrumental in generating waste management or characterisation plans from the project planning stage and follow up with the on-site processing of waste materials produced during all stages of any project, whether it's a full Decontamination & Decommissioning project or a plant development project.
Providing waste coordination, ongoing advice to projects or operational plants, and generating clearance paperwork for equipment or clean materials, the team with support from the wider Waste Consultancy team can handle all waste or characterisation related aspects to any project. The team will also carry out meticulous tracking of all materials processed to enable project close out and supporting the Lifetime Records required by the client.
