Dounreay

John on January 31st, 2012

 SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay.

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John on January 10th, 2012

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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John on November 23rd, 2011

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. 

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John on November 9th, 2011

The British Safety Council has named Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd one of the country’s top companies for its standards of environmental management.

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John on November 4th, 2011

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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John on November 2nd, 2011

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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John on September 15th, 2011

Dounreay’s decommissioning contractor sets out what will happen to an estimated 300,000 tonnes of radioactive  material from the clean-out and closure of the former nuclear research site.

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John on August 4th, 2011

Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA and Scotland’s enterprise network to make it easier for companies to win work in the nuclear marketplace.

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John on August 1st, 2011

A notice published today in the Official Journal of the European Union seeks expressions of interest from companies capable of building a plant to grout low-level radioactive waste prior to its disposal at Dounreay.

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A 16-piece tool designed to reach deep inside one of Britain’s earliest atomic experiments and harvest the nuclear material that once promised to revolutionise how the nation generated its electricity.

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