Radioactive Substances

Registration Of Users

Requests for information held on the Public Register will be responded to in line with the Department’s procedure for dealing with Requests for Environmental Information.

The Environment Agency is the enforcing Authority of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (as amended by the Environment Act 1995). They exercise control by registering users of radioactive material and authorising accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste.

As a Local Authority, we are required under this Act, to keep information provided on a Public Register and in some cases be consulted, by the Environment Agency. Due to a Direction under Section 25 (1) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 22nd March 2005 the registration of users is no longer available on the web-site.

The type of information sent by the Environment Agency to Wychavon includes the following categories;

• Copies of applications for registration as users;
• Copies of applications for authorisation to accumulate or dispose of radioactive waste;
• Copies of certificates of registration and authorisation;
• Copies of revocation or variation to an authorisation or registration; and
• Copies of any Enforcement Notices or Prohibition Notices served by the Agency.

Public Register

Copies of this information are held on the Public Register, and subject to the provisions of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, may be available to view without charge, as a paper document at the Civic Centre, Pershore. Appointments must be made in advance in light of the legal Direction made on 22^nd March 2005.

Radioactivity in Food and the Environment

A report - Radioactivity in Food and the Environment 2004 (RIFE – 10) can be viewed at the Civic Centre (address details below). The report contains results from the radiological monitoring programmes of the Environment Agency and Food Standards Agency in England and Wales plus those of the Environment and Heritage Service for Northern Ireland and Scottish Environment Protection Agency.  It also includes the results from the complimentary monitoring of the food chain carried out by the Food Standards Agency.

Copies of the 2001 and 1999 Environment Agency reports of Radioactivity in the Environment and the 2002 Environment Agency Report of 'Radioactivity and Food in the Environment' are also available to view.

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Environmental Protection, Environmental Services,
Wychavon District Council, Civic Centre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, Worcs. WR10 1PT

Telephone: 01386 565015  - between 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday
Fax: 01386 561826
Email: environmental.health@wychavon.gov.uk