Dounreay
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.
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.
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.
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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A clean-up operation funded by the NDA has destroyed more than half the liquid metal used as coolant in the experimental Dounreay Fast Reactor.
The NDA today published a report setting out credible options for managing the breeder material from the Dounreay Fast Reactor.
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A vital flask to be used for the removal of the highly hazardous material from within the Dounreay Fast Reactor has been delivered, marking further progress for the shutdown of the site.
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A new laboratory is to be built at Dounreay to provide essential support to the remainder of the site clean-up.
Land and Marine has moved its platform into position off Dounreay and restarted work to clear the seabed of radioactive fragments.
Work to clean up Dounreay moves offshore next month when contractor Land and Marine returns to the seabed in the latest search for fragments of spent nuclear fuel.
