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Nirex is a United Kingdom government body set up in 1982 under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to examine safe, environmental and economic aspects of deep geological disposal of intermediate-level and low-level radioactive waste in underground storage facilities. Originally known as the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive, it was replaced by the limited company Nirex in 1985. The ownership of Nirex was transferred from the UK Government departments Defra and DTI to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in 2007.