Sellafield , Advertisement Of Consultation Of Radioactive Substances

Advertisement of Consultation on a variation to the Radioactive Substances Regulation Environmental Permit for Sellafield under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Name of applicant: Sellafield Limited

Type of regulated activities and permit numbers: Radioactive Substances Activities environmental permit (reference EPR/KP3690SX)

Address of regulated facility: Sellafield site, Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG

Variation to permit EPRV KP3690SX/V013: We have received an application from Sellafield Ltd to make changes to the existing Radioactive Substances Activities (RSA) permit for the Sellafield site in Cumbria. The permit controls receipt and disposal of radioactive waste and imposes conditions and limits on radioactive discharges to the environment. The operator is proposing to make changes to the permit which include:

• the registration of the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) Retrievals Ventilation System (RVS) stub stack which is being constructed to minimise and reduce facility gaseous discharges during operational activities by improving gaseous abatement with the use of additional High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters.

• to register an Outfall X to discharge construction related aqueous waste arisings (non-sewage trade waste) to the river Calder via surface water drainage.

• the removal of the Gaseous Annual Site Limits for Krypton-85 & AntJmony-125 following the completion of Magnox reprocessing in July 2022.

• a reduction to the Radium-226 limit and update to the site plan due to Sellafield Ltd.'s application to extend the Calder Landfill Extension Segregated Area (CLESA) into an adjacent 'valley area'. Please note that there are no required changes to the site's RSA environmental permit site boundary.

  Following our determination of this application, we will only issue an environmental permit if all legislative requirements are met.

  How to comment: The application and other supporting documents are available for you to view on our consultation website Citizen Space at: httpsV/consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/ca20-1pg-sellafield-ltd-sellafield-site-epr-kp3690 We're inviting your comments on the variation, and where relevant, we can use these to help inform our final decisions on the permits. We will publish our final decision in November 2023.

  The application and other supporting documents are available for you to view on our consultation website Citizen Space at: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/ca20-1pg-sellafield-ltd-sellafield-site-epr-kp3690. We're inviting your comments on the variation, and where relevant, we can use these to help inform our final decisions on the permits. We will publish our final decision in November 2023.

  If you are unable to access the documents online please contact the Environment Agency on 03708 506 506 (Mon-Fri) or nuclear@environment-agency.gov.uk nuclear@environment-agency.gov.uk and we will provide a paper copy.

  Please note that any responses we receive will normally be The consultation starts on Monday 7 August 2023 and closes on Sunday 3 September 2022.

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