Dounreay aerial view
Press Release
The clearance of tens of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste from the redundant nuclear site at Dounreay today moved a step closer.
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd announced the formal award of a contract to develop a disposal site for low-level waste from the decommissioning and closure of the site. Read it all..
Atkins and Assystem are to form a strategic alliance to create a 50/50 nuclear engineering joint venture to provide consultancy and engineering services to the rapidly-expanding international nuclear new build market. The Nuclear Atkins Assystem Alliance will enable both companies to address demand from governments and utilities in countries developing nuclear power as part of their energy mix and will provide services to nuclear new build projects and across the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Read it all..
Press Release
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is updating its workforce about the changing shape of the site closure plan and efforts to bring new industry to the area.
The existing programme is being significantly reworked to bring it into line with an annual cap on funding from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced earlier this year. Read it all..
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..