One of the most demanding clean-up jobs ever undertaken in the history of nuclear energy is gathering pace. It involves the recovery and packaging of more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste that has lain submerged for up to 50 years in the ground beneath Britain’s abandoned experiment with fast reactors at Dounreay. Read it all..
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has announced the launch of the competition to secure a Parent Body Organisation (PBO) for the Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) Site Licence Company (SLC). Read it all..
Dounreay aerial view
The performance of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd during its first year of operation is highlighted in the newly-published annual report and accounts of its parent body, UKAEA. Read it all..
UK Government Minister Lord Hunt visited the site of Scotland’s most successful nuclear clean-up project and watched the first screening of a film about its clean-out and demolition. Read it all..
Press release
More than a hundred fragments of spent nuclear fuel were removed from the seabed in the latest phase of work to clean up and shut down the former nuclear research site at Dounreay. Read it all..
Press Release
An independent audit of health and safety at Dounreay has placed the site in the highest category of good practice.
The systems governing health and safety underwent a gruelling week-long audit by the British Safety Council and emerged with a coveted five-star award. Read it all..
Dounreay aerial view
The first part of the Dounreay competition industry event will be hosted in Caithness by the Dounreay Stakeholder Group (DSG), with support from the NDA.
Dounreay aerial view
Dounreay is well on its way to destroying the largest single hazard left over from the fast reactor research and development programme.
A new film about decommissioning Dounreay gets its first public screening today at a national stakeholder event in Manchester run by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
“Countdown to Closure – Decommissioning Dounreay” charts the progress made to dismantle the site since the NDA was set up four years ago. Read it all..
Press Release Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd 4th June 2009
An area of seabed equivalent in size to more than 10 football pitches is to be monitored over the summer during the next phase of implementation of Dounreay’s particle recovery programme.
