Dive summary:
- Veolia has submitted an environmental permit application to start treating low-level radioactive waste at its facility in Ellesmere Port, England.
- The plant will process about 1,100 tons of low-level radioactive waste annually – about 1% of the plant’s capacity.
- The waste would be collected from hospitals, universities, medicine manufacturers and the energy industry.
From the article:
RADIOACTIVE waste could be incinerated in Ellesmere Port.
Deliveries of radioactive material may be arriving as soon as February to Veolia Environmental Services, based on Bridges Road, Ellesmere Port.
Veolia, which acquired the site in 2006, has submitted an environmental permit application to the Environment Agency to allow the treatment of low-level radioactive waste at the company’s Ellesmere Port high-temperature incinerator (HTI). ...