Low Level Waste Repository
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Low Level Waste Repository (LLW Repository Ltd) is the UK's Low Level (Radioactive) Waste Repository located on the West Cumbrian coast approximately six km south east of the Sellafield nuclear site at Drigg village.
In early 2008 Cumbria County Council granted permission for a new vault (9) to be built. The new vault is expected to accommodate about 700 ISO steel containers per year, with two-thirds of waste coming from Sellafield and the remainder from MoD sites; nuclear power stations; hospitals; universities; medical companies and the oil industry.
The new vault will be able to hold 5,500 ISO steel containers, meaning that it will have an operational life of about eight years.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the 15th August 2007 announced that UK Nuclear Waste Management Ltd (a consortium led by the Washington Division of URS Corporation and including Studsvik UK, AREVA-NC and Serco Assurance) is the Preferred Bidder in the competition for the management and operation of the Low Level Waste Repository
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