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