Press release
A new report provides an independent assessment of the levels of radioactivity that members of the public are exposed to near Dounreay. Read it all..
September 24, 2009
Tests underway at Dounreay to retrieve underground waste
Press Release
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..
September 22, 2009
NDA announces launch of PBO competition for Dounreay
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..
September 8, 2009
Dounreay delivers £6m in savings to NDA
Press Release
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 Minister sees first screening of new clean-up film
Press Release 
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..
August 20, 2009
Press release
Dounreay’s robotic technology cleans up seabed
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..
August 6, 2009
Safety audit earns Dounreay top award
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..
July 16, 2009
Dounreay competition industry event to be held in Caithness
Press Release15 July 2009
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.
June 25, 2009
Dounreay’s largest hazard removal cranks up a gear
Press by Dounreay
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.
June 18, 2009
Decommissioning Dounreay in video
Press Release Dounreay Site Restoration 17th June 2009
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..