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Event Programme

Programme

You can download a pdf version of the programme here .

First Day

Date: 12th February 2008

Venue: The Holiday Inn, Lime Street, Liverpool

Format: Facilitated discussion with the following themes

  • Transport
  • Monitoring
  • Statistics
  • Non-radioactive environmental legislation

 

Participants are offered the chance to attend 3 of these sessions. Please indicate on the registration form which sessions you would like to attend. Numbers are limited for this session so please register promptly in order to reserve a place.

12:30 – 14:00

Registration

 

Introductory Address:

 

Breakout Sessions

 

Summary and conclusions:

Please note that all times are approximate.

Conference Dinner
There will be a Conference Dinner in the Holiday Inn on the evening of the 12th of February. Attendance is optional, but delegates will need to indicate their attendance when registering.

Second Day
Date: 13th February 2008

Venue: The Holiday Inn, Lime Street, Liverpool

Format: Formal presentations by regulators, stakeholders, consignors and service suppliers.

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:20

Introductory Address:

09:20 – 09:40

Bob Russ (Environment Agency)

Exemption orders and transfrontier shipments

09:40 - 10:00

Steve Griffiths (Nuclear Installations Inspectorate)

10:00 – 10:20

John Titley (Environment Agency)

Environment Agency RSA-Exempt Waste Check Monitoring Project

 

10:20 – 10:50

Morning Tea / Coffee Break and Exhibition Viewing

10:50 – 11:10

Paul Dorfman (Senior Research Fellow,National Centre For Involvement,University of Warwick)

Multiple Perspectives on Rad-Waste Exemption Orders: Voices, Values and Health

 

11:10 – 11:30

 

Richard Bramhall (Low Level Radiation Campaign)

Official Attitudes to Scientific Problems With Quantifying Radiation Risk

 

11:30 – 11:50

Colin Holmes (Veolia)

A Landfill Operators Perspective on the Disposal of Clean and Exempt Waste

11:50 – 12:20

Questions

12:20 – 14:00

Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

14:00 – 14:20

Andy Childs (C & P Environmental Ltd)

Environmental Legislation: Compliance Issues for RSA-Exempt Waste Consignors

14:20 – 14:40

Alan Fisher (Waste Compliance Manager, UKAEA Harwell)

Practical Experience of Applying the Code of Practice

 

14:40 – 15:00

Marilew Bartling (Head of Characterisation & Clearance, Sellafield Ltd)

A programmatic approach to applying Data Quality Objectives at Sellafield

15:00 – 15:20

Julian Dean (Senior Research Scientist, NPL)

Results of an Exempt Waste Monitoring Intercomparison Exercise

 

15:20 – 15:50

Afternoon Tea / Coffee Break and Exhibition Viewing

15:50 – 16:10

 

Bob Yetter (British Nuclear Group, Chapelcross)

Radiological Clearance Surveys of Structures Prior to Demolition

 

16:10 – 16:30

Andy Clifton (Director of Radiological Services RPS Planning and Development)

Waste Sentencing - Practical Considerations for Sampling and Laboratory Analysis

16:30 – 16:50

 

Rachel Golding (Clearance Supervisor, AWE)

Characterising Bulk Wastes at AWE: An update 12 months on

 

16:50 – 17:10

 

Chris Hannon (Senior Project Engineer, Studsvik UK)

Clearance and Exemption: A Contractor’s Perspective

 

17:10 – 17:40

Questions

17:40 – 18:00

Concluding address:

Please note that all timings are approximate

Throughout the workshop there will be a series of commercial display stands immediately outside the main conference room.