Policy background Part 14: Civil Nuclear Sector Excluded Disposal Sites
The UK is a signatory to the Paris and Brussels Conventions on Nuclear Third-Party Liability. These Conventions were amended by Protocols in 2004. One of the amendments was to extend the requirement for nuclear third-party liability to disposal facilities for radioactive waste of nuclear origin. In 2016, the UK passed the Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order to implement these proposals. This Order came into effect on 1 January 2022.
	The Act will implement the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s 2016 "Low Level Waste Exclusion" 34 This will allow qualifying low level waste disposal facilities to exit the requirement for nuclear third-party liability in view of the low levels of risk they present. This will reduce costs for operators of these disposal facilities and ensure disposal capacity as the nuclear decommissioning programme accelerates.