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Monday 14 May 2012
NDA sees savings in integrated waste approach
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority believes the cost of managing radioactive waste from its sites could be reduced by billions of pounds through a more strategic approach.
Monday 14 May 2012
New team shares shutdown plan with supply chain
Dounreay’s new executive team outlined its approach to site closure at a briefing session for contractors and sub-contractors.
Friday 4 May 2012
Liquid metal destruction featured in Dounreay newspaper
Dounreay’s site newspaper this month focuses on the destruction of the site’s hazardous liquid metal legacy.
Thursday 3 May 2012
Latest performance figures reported for Dounreay
The latest edition of Dounreay's monthly performance report has been published.
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Clean-up set to resume offshore
Work to clean up and close down the redundant nuclear site at Dounreay moves offshore again this month.
Thursday 19 April 2012
Dounreay cuts electricity use by 3 per cent
Dounreay reduced its electricity consumption by almost three per cent last year but still used up enough energy during its decommissioning to supply a small town of 8000 people.
Friday 6 April 2012
Dounreay announces destruction of major hazard
Dounreay today completed the destruction of one of the most hazardous legacies of Britain’s earliest atomic research.
Thursday 5 April 2012
Latest performance figures reported for February 2012
The latest edition of Dounreay's monthly performance report has been published.
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Handover to Dounreay's new clean-up team in April site newspaper
Dounreay’s site newspaper this month focuses on the handover to the site’s new clean-up team who have won the largest site closure contract ever let in the UK.
Monday 2 April 2012
Gone by 2025 - new clean-up team sets out vision for site closure
Senior figures from government and industry are gathering at Dounreay today to hear the site’s new clean-up team set out their vision to accelerate the demolition of Britain’s second largest civil nuclear site.
Monday 2 April 2012
NDA business plan sets out goals for Dounreay clean-up
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority today publishes its business plan for 2012/13, setting out key clean-up goals for sites such as Dounreay to achieve.
Sunday 1 April 2012
Babcock consortium acquires site licence company
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is under new ownership from today.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Award recognises high safety standards at Dounreay
The British Safety Council has named Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd among its list of International Safety Awards for 2012.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Another gap appears in Fuel Cycle Area
Another gap has opened up in the skyline of Dounreay with the demolition of the latest redundant facility.
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Work begins on railhead to support site closure
Construction work is underway on a new railhead to support the closure of the redundant nuclear site at Dounreay.
Friday 16 March 2012
Scottish Government rules on waste substitution
Scottish Government today 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.
Friday 16 March 2012
Dounreay fuels - closing date for comments is March 23
March 23 is the closing date for the submission of views to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority about options for managing its stock of nuclear fuel at Dounreay.
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Civil Nuclear Constabulary training exercise
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) will be holding a training exercise at Dounreay on the evening of Wednesday, March 14, that will include both DSRL and Northern Constabulary staff.
Thursday 8 March 2012
New police firearms range is planned
Members of the public are being invited to find out more about a new police firearms training facility for Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers stationed at Dounreay.
Monday 5 March 2012
Demolitions feature in latest issue of site newspaper
Dounreay is changing shape as two more buildings in the fuel cycle area are demolished.
Friday 2 March 2012
Dounreay's latest performance figures published for January 2012
The latest edition of Dounreay's monthly performance report has been published.
Friday 24 February 2012
Blasting to begin at waste disposal site
DSRL is informing staff and neighbours that blasting operations at the site of a new waste disposal facility will start during the afternoon of Thursday, March 1.
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Dismantled pipe activates smoke alarm
The site’s fire brigade was called out shortly before 6am this morning when a smoke alarm activated in the Prototype Fast Reactor complex.
Tuesday 21 February 2012
More of Dounreay turned into rubble
More of Dounreay is disappearing in a pile of rubble.
Monday 20 February 2012
DSRL informs SEPA of potentially significant particle find
Dounreay clean-up contractor DSRL has informed the Scottish Environment Protection Agency of additional tests being carried out on a particle recovered during routine monitoring of a beach near the redundant nuclear site.
Thursday 16 February 2012
Dounreay backs science campaign in schools
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has agreed a three-year funding package to support the promotion of science and engineering in local schools.
Tuesday 14 February 2012
DFR clean-up's a dirty job
The decommissioning teams taking apart Dounreay’s famous dome are reducing the hazard every minute of every day.
Tuesday 7 February 2012
NDA examines options for Dounreay 'exotic' fuels
The future of the remaining ‘exotic’ fuels and nuclear materials at Dounreay is being considered by the NDA who have today published a paper outlining two options for the material.
Thursday 2 February 2012
NDA invites bursary applications
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which owns Dounreay and funds its site closure programme, is offering a bursary up to £500,000 to encourage university research projects that can contribute to its clean-up mission.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Apprentice activities in the spotlight in site newspaper
Dounreay’s apprentices had a busy year in 2011, and their activities are featured in the February issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, now available online.
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Public consultation for new Dounreay waste disposal facility
SEPA has announced its intention to hold a public consultation on the proposed solid low level radioactive waste disposal facility at Dounreay.
Friday 27 January 2012
Latest performance figures reported for December 2011
The latest edition of Dounreay's monthly performance report has been published.
Thursday 26 January 2012
Shoe contamination detected
Traces of contamination were found on the shoes of a number of operators who were preparing a building for demolition.
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Demolition team moves into D1200
A demolition team has moved in to begin dismantling another part of the former Fuel Cycle Area at Dounreay.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Major hazard reduces to final few batches
Dounreay is within touching distance of completing one of Britain’s most important nuclear clean-up tasks.
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