Also, the operations in England will include partnership in and services related to the
low-level waste repository in Cumbria.
The work is expected to see historic wastes from the site's shaft, silo and
low-level waste pits retrieved, repackaged and consigned to modern waste facilities.
It now takes
low-level waste only from South Carolina, Connecticut and New Jersey.
A report by environment agency Sepa last year gave the Caithness plant an "at risk" rating for the management of radioactive waste and a "poor" for management of the
low-level waste vaults.
On the basis of waste type, the market is segmented into high-level, intermediate-level, and
low-level waste. By nuclear reactor type, the report segments the market into gas cooled reactors, boiling water reactors, pressurized heavy water reactors, and pressurized water reactors.
Bosses told the Scottish Environment Protection Agency there had been "a small on-site fire involving
low-level waste".
"Metal recycling facilities have, and will continue to play, a significant part in reducing
low-level waste," he added.
A special facility is required to store the
low-level waste in Japan.
ABOUT 2,600 litres of
low-level waste from the Hunterston B nuclear power station was released into the Firth of Clyde by accident earlier this year, it has been revealed.
The Trawsfynydd nuclear plant, now a store for
low-level wasteThe business has applied to the Environment Agency (EA) to double the amount of
low-level waste it can take off site from 300 cubic metres a year to 600.