decommissioning programme. In 2022 over 1000 drums of radioactive waste from the Steam-Generating Heavy Water Reactor will be transported by 11 trains to the Low Level Waste Repository. The material was once intermediate-level waste but had decayed down to low-level waste while being stored at Winfrith. See also Nuclear power in the United Kingdom Energy policy of the United Kingdom References Citations Bibliography External links Energy infrastructure completed in 1959 Former nuclear research institutes Nuclear technology in the United Kingdom Former nuclear power stations in England Nuclear research institutes in the United Kingdom Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United Kingdom Organisations based in Dorset Science and technology in Dorset 1959 establishments in England