At a glance

 

2.6 billion
- Estimated cost (£) of site decommissioning

2025
- All redundant facilities cleared

2300

- Controls removed on contaminated land

3
- Number of reactors built and tested at site

10,000
- Number of fuel elements manufactured for research

1994
- Year that last reactor shut down

1996
- Year that fuel reprocessing ceased

100+
- Number of facilities cleared away so far

15,000
- Maximum volume (m3) of intermediate-level radioactive waste from decommissioning

175,000
- Maximum volume (m3) of low-level radioactive waste from decommissioning

3000
- Number of people in Scotland employed on decommissioning Dounreay

150 million
- Annual spend (£) on site decommissioning

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