Management and remediation of radioactively contaminated land on nuclear licensed sites: a regulatory perspective

The legislative framework allows HSE to regulate contaminated land on licen sed sites. HSE considers land and materials contaminated with radioactivity to be radioactive waste and will regulate it accordingly. Licensees should address contaminated land in their strategies for managing radioactive was tes. Safety cases to justify those strategies should shown that options hav e been considered and that risks imposed on present and future generations will be as low as reasonably practicable.