Catalogue description Committee on Radioactive Waste Management Website

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This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) was set up in 2003 to review the options for managing the UK’s higher activity solid radioactive waste, and to make recommendations on the option, or combination of options, that could provide a long-term solution, providing protection for people and the environment. In 2007 CoRWM was reconsituted with new terms of reference. CoRWM's role is now to provide independent scrutiny and advice to UK Governments on the long term management, including storage and disposal, of radioactive waste. Within this role its main task is to provide independent scrutiny on proposals, plans and programmes to deliver geological disposal, together with robust interim storage, as the long term management option for the UK’s higher activity wastes.

CoRWM has reported to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland. From 2009, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) assumed the responsibilities of Defra.