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The pace of the Dounreay competition continues to gain momentum, with the NDA announcing the publication of the Contract Notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The publication of the Contract Notice coincides with the second part of the Industry Event on 9 March in Glasgow and marks the start of the prequalification period of the Dounreay Parent Body Organisation (PBO) Competition.

The event on 9 March is to provide the market with key information about the specific requirements and process for the competition, as well the expectations of key stakeholders and regulators. Read it all..

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The world’s deepest nuclear clean-up job has won its 4th top award for engineering excellence.

Judges in this year’s Scottish Saltire Awards named the shaft isolation project at Dounreay as one of the country’s best examples of civil engineering. Read it all..

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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..

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2 November 2009

The sale of UKAEA Ltd, the commercial arm of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, to Babcock International Group has been completed. 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..

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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..

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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..

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..

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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..

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has signalled a successful year in its 2008/09 Annual Report & Accounts laid before Parliament, delivering its programme within its £2.7 Bn budget and with £183 M of efficiency savings ploughed back into the clean-up mission. Read it all..