Our Winfrith site is unique in terms of its technology, facilities and its radioactive discharge authorisations.
Our current capabilities include:
- A safety case for handling ILW
- Extensive buffer storage
- Radioactive materials transport containers
- A rail head
- Waste sampling tools
- Waste retrieval equipment
- Radiochemical analysis laboratories
- Fixed and mobile Low-level waste cementation plants
- Cement sample archive store
- Alpha processing laboratories/facility
- Mobile supercompaction plant
- Mobile organic destruction plant
- Tritium and carbon-14 decontamination facilities
- Waste process development laboratories
- A flexible sorting and processing facility
We can operate our mobile plant on any nuclear site or in our centralised processing facilities at Winfrith.