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7E23 - LLW Metallic Waste
Tools, plant and equipment used in support of submarine dismantling operations, or those activities in other facilities support it. Containers have become waste following the transfer of their contents and reaching end of life.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Rosyth Royal Dockyard | LLW

7E29 - Intermediate Level Ion Exchange Resin (Decontamination)
Current stocks have come from submarine refitting.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Rosyth Royal Dockyard | ILW

7F22 - Submarine Reactor Wastes (Non-metallic)
Non-metallic LLW is generated primarily from reactor maintenance; secondary wastes are generated in facilities that provide submarine support services e.g. radioactive component processing, radiochemistry laboratory, etc.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Clyde Submarine Base | LLW

7F23 - Submarine Reactor Wastes (Metallic LLW)
Metallic LLW is generated primarily from NRP maintenance; secondary wastes are generated in the nuclear facilities that provide submarine support services e.g. radioactive component processing, radiochemistry laboratory, etc.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Clyde Submarine Base | LLW

7F26/C - Conditioned Ion Exchange Resin from Nuclear Effluent Plants
IXR used to remove radioactivity from low level aqueous radioactive waste from the Naval Programme.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Clyde Submarine Base | LLW

7F28 - Tritiated Desiccant
The radioactivity present in the wastestream originates entirely from a design leak rate of tritium which is adsorbed by desiccant during weapons transport and storage.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Clyde Submarine Base | LLW

7G103 - LLW from Decommissioned Submarines
Dismantling of nuclear steam-raising plant.

Babcock and Ministry of Defence | Rosyth & Devonport (Submarines) | LLW

7G104 - Long-Lived ILW from Decommissioned Submarines
Decommissioning of the UK fleet of nuclear powered submarines.

Babcock and Ministry of Defence | Rosyth & Devonport (Submarines) | ILW

7J23 - Miscellaneous ILW
MoD stock and residual holdings of NNPP material and effluent receipt facility material. No disposals have taken place since 2022. This data is forecast for process work creating disposals to recommence.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | HMNB Portsmouth | ILW

7J25 - Luminised Waste
Luminised scrap/unserviceable MOD stores items and other radioactive items from the de-equipping of ships, together with smaller quantities (annually <1m³) from the MOD Institute of Naval Medicine Alverstoke.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) | HMNB Portsmouth | ILW