Radioactive Waste Disposal Services
Tradebe Inutec provides the UK nuclear industry with a proven and comprehensive LLW and higher activity waste treatment, processing, recycling and disposal service. Our customers, who have Radioactive Substances Act authorisations that include transfer of waste to Inutec, include Sellafield Limited, RSRL, Magnox, BEGL, AWE, MoD, GE Healthcare and Babcock Marine Services. Tradebe Inutec has been providing a LLW service for over 20 years. In addition, Tradebe Inutec offers a bespoke waste collection, processing and disposal service for users of small amounts of radioactive material such as hospitals, universities, schools, industrial research centres, museums and other establishments, where the amount of waste generated is insufficient to warrant dedicated waste conditioning facilities on the users own site.
Tradebe Inutec is regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 for solid, liquid and gaseous discharges from our facilities in Dorset, enabling us to process, condition and dispose of customer wastes and any resulting secondary wastes under our own authorised routes as well as those of our customers. These authorised routes cover the full spectrum of radioactive waste, encompassing ‘free release’ / exempt material through very low level waste (VLLW) and Low Level Waste (LLW) to higher activity wastes.
Tradebe Inutec uses a variety of waste conditioning processes, including size reduction, metal decontamination, drying, supercompaction, cement encapsulation, or a combination thereof as appropriate. The processing techniques are selected by appropriate best practicable environmental options (BPEO) and best practicable means (BPM) assessment. One of the primary aims is to minimise the volume of waste for disposal, whilst ensuring that the wasteform produced will minimise the release of any hazardous components, thus ensuring that the conditioned wasteform complies with the conditions for acceptance for disposal.