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, are available to view without charge, as a paper document at the Civic Centre, Pershore. For legal reasons, you must make an appointment in advance to view the register.

Radioactivity in Food and the Environment

A report – Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) 2008 can be viewed here (3.49 MB) and the appendix here (263.14 KB). This report shows the results from the Environment Agency’s monitoring of radioactivity in the environment carried out in England and Wales during 2007, together with complimentary monitoring of the food chain carried out by the Food Standards Agency. This RIFE report also presents results from the radiological monitoring programmes in other parts of the UK carried out by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Electronic copies of all Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports 1-13 from 1995-2007 and Radioactivity in the Environment 2000 and 2001 are available and may be requested from Environmental Services at the Civic Centre. Copies of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Environment Agency reports of Radioactivity in the Environment and the 2002 and 2004 Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports are available to view at the Civic Centre in Pershore as hard copies.