Delivering the safe clean-up and demolition of the UK's former centre of fast reactor research on behalf of the Nuclear Decomissioning Authority

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The demolition in 2003 of D1111 was the most significant change to have been made to the skyline of Dounreay....

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Robot power will take apart Dounreay’s dome
15 November 2011
Like something out of the Tom Cruise movie War of the Worlds, the Kuka robot has a very important job to do.

New flask signals reactor clean-up progress
05 July 2011
Vital testing equipment 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.

Giant tanks installed for reactor dismantling
13 April 2011
Installation of two new twenty-seven tonne nitrogen tanks for the Dounreay Fast Reactor breeder building marks another notable step forward in preparation for taking apart the redundant reactor.

DFR hazard destruction ahead of schedule
25 June 2010
Safe destruction of over 20,000 litres of the liquid metal left over from the UK’s first fast reactor experiment is a milestone several weeks ahead of schedule that the Dounreay Fast Reactor decommissioning team can be very proud of.

Toxic hazard levels are dropping fast
07 June 2010
The Dounreay plant that destroys the largest single hazard left over from the fast reactor experiment is working full throttle and has destroyed the equivalent of approximately 19,000 litre bottles of the liquid metal.

Crane replacement timelapse video goes live
04 May 2010
A DFR decommissioning team led by Mark Aitken has successfully installed a new 55 tonne crane into the breeder removal building adjacent to DFR.

NDA bosses see major hazard being destroyed
16 April 2008
The two men in charge of Britain's nuclear clean-up programme have seen how one of their biggest hazards is being destroyed at Dounreay.

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