{"id":63666,"date":"2015-11-03T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6d494081e12d7217bb8ad3dde6762a0d"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:44:01","slug":"news-story-low-level-waste-repository-achieves-major-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63666","title":{"rendered":"News story: Low Level Waste Repository achieves major milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The submission of the application follows news that LLWR has been granted a revised permit to allow continued disposal of wastes at the site<\/a> \u2013 the culmination of 7 years\u2019 work by the organisation.<\/p>\n

The site, near Drigg, in West Cumbria, is the UK\u2019s national facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.<\/p>\n

And the planning application is seeking to enable the phased construction of 3 new vaults (9a, 10 and 11) where low level waste would be disposed of in specially-grouted containers.<\/p>\n

If successful, construction work on vault 9a could start in 2016 and run for almost 4 years.<\/p>\n

The application would also allow higher-stacking of containers in vault 8 and the disposal of containers in vault 9, where they can currently only be stored.<\/p>\n

In addition, it would permit the construction of a final cap over existing and new vaults and seven landfill-style trenches where waste was disposed of prior to the opening of the site\u2019s first vault in 1988.<\/p>\n

The final cap would ensure the site was progressively restored to grassland with screening planting on the site perimeter.<\/p>\n

Dennis Thompson, LLWR Managing Director, said:<\/p>\n

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Obtaining a permit for disposal is a major milestone for the company, achieving one of the key objectives of the NDA who awarded us the contract for managing LLWR in 2008.<\/p>\n

So much hard work has gone into this great news, and I would like to thank all who played a part in achieving this outcome.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Permit and the planning application go hand-in-hand, one cannot work effectively without the other.<\/p>\n

Our planning application is the next step. Hopefully it will be determined early in the new year. We will then be in a position to press ahead.<\/p>\n

We plan to develop the site to its full capacity, which will allow us to accommodate all the forecasted low level waste arisings well into the next century.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

LLWR hopes eventually to construct up to 14 vaults on site, leaving a closure date of around 2130.<\/p>\n

David Batters, NDA\u2019s Chief Financial Officer and Estate Programme Director, added: <\/p>\n

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The granting of the Environment Agency permit is a significant step forward, and once the site has the aligned planning permission in place then together they set out a clear approach to the long-term management of the site.<\/p>\n

The need for long-term planning alongside value-for-money operations is exactly what we require and what LLWR Ltd is on track to deliver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LLW Repository Ltd has submitted a far-reaching planning application which, if successful, will ensure the future of its site until 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}