Berkeley occupies a 27-hectare site of Special Scientific Interest on the eastern bank of the River Severn in Gloucestershire and was also home to the Berkeley research laboratories.
Its two reactors were put into safestore in 2010. The site is now focussed on the safe retrieval and packaging of waste held within its subterranean vaults as well as historical waste from the Berkeley research laboratories.
Land previously owned by NDA adjacent to the site has now been delicensed and redeveloped by local college, South Gloucestershire and Stroud (SGS), into the Berkeley Green campus.
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Site Owner
Information is presented about wastes that existed at Berkeley at the stock date (1 April 2025) and were forecast to arise after this date.
For background information about this site owner, please refer to the Site Information Sheets in the 2025 UK Radioactive Waste Inventory report.
The following page presents information about radioactive wastes at the specific site selected.
Information about spent fuel and nuclear materials is presented separately in the relevant 2025 Inventory report. For official figures and essential information about how the data has been produced, always refer to the UKRWI 2025 published reports.
From Amersham and AWE Aldermaston to Winfrith and Wylfa – you can source site-by-site
waste inventory data from sites across the UK nuclear industry here.
