Who are RWM?
We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which is an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
It is the delivery organisation for a Geological Disposal Facility and for the provision of waste management solutions. It operates as part of One NDA and the achievement of its objectives are mission critical to the NDA.
As a subsidiary of the NDA, RWM has responsibility for delivering radioactive waste solutions and delivery of a Geological Disposal Facility. This involves working proactively with waste owners to realise opportunities for the optimisation of the geological disposal system in combination with earlier phases of the waste management lifecycle in order to minimise factors such as safety and environmental impacts, hazard, cost, risk and volume of waste to be managed in a geological disposal facility
Our Mission
To deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
Our commitment
RWM is engaging in discussions to help build understanding of geological disposal and the process to identify a site for a UK geological disposal facility.
The Plan
We have set out three key priorities that will shape and guide our work throughout the next three years. Our priorities are in line with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)’s key activities for us and more detail can be found in Annex One at the end of this document.
Our first area of priority is to work with potential interested parties and develop the conversation with them about whether their area might be suitable location for a GDF, with the aim of progressing them to Working Groups and eventually to Community Partnerships. We’ll also be driving our preparatory work for site evaluation to ensure we are ready for the next stage in our mission.
We are responsible for delivering waste management solutions for the UK and we will continue to play a key role, working alongside NDA, with a particular focus on how we can best support its teams with guidance for problematic waste and management of waste packaging.
Our third priority is to look at the way we work and build on our existing strong culture so that we are driving delivery with pace, and with a strong culture of safety, security and quality in all we do. This work is underway, and everyone at RWM has a role in taking it forward, so we collectively become a strong and safe delivery organisation
