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.
Like a giant Meccano set, some 1500 parts are being fitted together to create a new ventilation system that will protect workers decommissioning some of Dounreay’s most hazardous facilities. Read it all..
Dounreay aerial view
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has received planning consent for two of the biggest construction projects needed to complete the site clean-up.
In order to pull out the innards of the redundant reactor which once fed power into the national grid, DSRL’s design engineers have had to come up with some pretty ingenious inventions since the reactor was switched off. Read it all..
Dounreay aerial view
Dounreay’s industrial safety record during the last 12 months earned a £22,500 windfall for good causes locally. Read it all..
Another legacy of Dounreay’s commercial venture into nuclear reprocessing has been safely cleaned up and taken apart. Read it all..
Dounreay's Plan for New Construction Work
Dounreay is holding a special event for contractors with an interest in three major new construction projects.
The new facilities are the backbone of the work that needs to be done to demolish the remainder of the site and get all the radioactive waste into a form that is safe for long-term storage or disposal.
Construction work on the first of the major new plants is scheduled to begin next year.
Dounreay News 5 Feb 2009
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority wants companies to come up with plans showing how they would complete the clean-up if they were in charge of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd. Later this year, interested companies will be given details about all the work that still needs to be done to do this. Each company then will have about a year to come up with their plan.
Dounreay News 15 December
Dounreay workers have completed the clean up of the first of Dounreay’s fuel ponds. As well as being a first for Dounreay, it is also the first pond at a Scottish nuclear facility to be decommissioned, and one of the first in the UK. Read it all..