Dounreay
Dounreay has completed the destruction of one of the most hazardous legacies of Britain’s earliest atomic research.
Babcock Dounreay Partnership (BDP) has today (Monday 2 April 2012) been formally awarded the contract to manage the decommissioning, demolition and clean-up of the Dounreay nuclear site, having officially taken ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DRSL).
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The Scottish Government has announced the outcome of consultation on the return of radioactive waste to countries that sent their nuclear fuel to Dounreay in the 1990s for reprocessing.
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The NDA has today published a Credible Options Study covering the remaining nuclear materials at Dounreay referred to as ‘exotics’. The study identifies two strategic options for the material.
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SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay.
Dounreay is close to completing one of Britain’s most important nuclear clean-up tasks in the destruction of liquid metal from Britain’s experimental fast breeder reactor.
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Babcock Dounreay Partnership is the preferred bidder in the competition to take ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, after a two-year public procurement process.
The British Safety Council has named Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd one of the country’s top companies for its standards of environmental management.
Dounreay’s in-housing training service has itself gained a new qualification – and praise from the UK Government Minister in charge of building up Britain’s nuclear skills base.
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An invitation to tender for the design and construction of a plant to grout low-level radioactive waste LLW at Dounreay was issued to seven companies today, following a selection process that began in July.
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