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Fast Reactors - The Caithness Dimension

This film, produced by AEA Technology in 1994, looks back on the history of the fast reactor development programme at Dounreay.

(0min 00sec) 15 February 2013

Decommissioning

The Breeder that Electrified Britain
The Breeder that Electrified Britain
It was the reactor that could harvest plutonium and herald a new fleet of power stations to regenerate Britain after the war. Today, the nuclear material made inside the Dounreay Fast Reactor is being packaged up and made ready for its return to national stocks.
(6min 15sec) 16 June 2011

Uranium plant comes apart
Uranium plant comes apart
Decommissioning the chemical plants that supplied British scientists and their allies with highly enriched uranium for research
(6min 17sec) 01 December 2010

Pulsed Column Lab
Pulsed Column Lab
Taking apart the Pulsed Column Lab
(4min 08sec) 26 June 2010

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Demolition

Demolition of D1207
Demolition of D1207
The decontamination and waste handling facility was dismantled following a four-year clean-up.
(0min 00sec) 29 June 2012

D8550 Stack Removal
D8550 Stack Removal
Stack removal from plutonium criticality laboratory
(1min 10sec) 18 February 2010

D1202 Demolition
D1202 Demolition
Demolition of D1202 at Dounreay
(3min 51sec) 18 February 2010

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General Site

Naturally Dounreay
Naturally Dounreay
A short film taken by Chris Gregory inside Dounreay for the site licence company, showing how nature has adapted to the construction, operation and now demolition of the fast reactor research establishment on Scotland's north coast. Soundtrack by Melvich Gaelic Choir and Atomic Piseag.
(0min 00sec) 07 June 2012

Dounreay - At the Cutting Edge of Nuclear Clean Up
Dounreay - At the Cutting Edge of Nuclear Clean Up
Richard Lochhead MSP, Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, speaking at the signing of the Dounreay site closure contract with Babcock, CH2MHILL and URS on April 2, 2012
(6min 17sec) 29 May 2012

Dounreay - the passion of URS
Dounreay - the passion of URS
Steve Picollo, senior executive vice-president of URS, at the site closure contract signing ceremony with Babcock International, CH2MHILL and URS on April 2, 2012
(3min 26sec) 21 May 2012

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Historical

Fast Reactors - The Caithness Dimension
Fast Reactors - The Caithness Dimension
This film, produced by AEA Technology in 1994, looks back on the history of the fast reactor development programme at Dounreay.
(0min 00sec) 15 February 2013

The Dounreay Project
The Dounreay Project
This black and white film, produced in 1959 for for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, shows the construction of the Dounreay fast reactor research establishment and its effect on the surrounding area.
(0min 00sec) 14 September 2012

The Dounreay Sphere
The Dounreay Sphere
The Dounreay Sphere - Design and Construction.
(25min 11sec) 03 June 2010

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Particles

Seabed clean-up at Dounreay (2010)
Seabed clean-up at Dounreay (2010)
A team of 22 work around the clock to clean up radioactive pollution from the seabed near the redundant nuclear site at Dounreay during summer 2010.
(7min 39sec) 19 January 2011

Recovery of particles from the seabed at Dounreay
Recovery of particles from the seabed at Dounreay
Detection, retrieval and monitoring of an offshore particle
(11min 39sec) 18 February 2010

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Waste

Hydraulic isolation of the Dounreay shaft
Hydraulic isolation of the Dounreay shaft
Hydraulic isolation of the Dounreay shaft
(7min 36sec) 21 May 2010

Going Underground at Dounreay
Going Underground at Dounreay
Going Underground at Dounreay
(3min 57sec) 20 April 2010

D3900 Project
D3900 Project
D3900 Project Summary Movie
(20min 03sec) 18 February 2010

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