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..

Another legacy of Dounreay’s commercial venture into nuclear reprocessing has been safely cleaned up and taken apart. Read it all..

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.

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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..