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..

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..

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..

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.

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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.

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Press Release Dounreay Site Restoration 17^th 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..

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.

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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..

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..