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About us
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) is the site licence company responsible for the closure programme at Britain's former centre of fast reactor research and development....
Aerodrome
An aerodrome was constructed at Dounreay during World War Two as part of the air defences for the fleet stationed at Scapa Flow, Orkney, though it never saw any action....
Archives
Since construction began in 1955, photographs, drawings, records and film footage have been archived for posperity. These will be transferred to the new National Nuclear Archive, which is due to be built in Wick, Caithness....
Books
Various books about Dounreay have been published over the years, by employees or others with an interest in Dounreay's history. ...
Boston Camp
In the early 1940s RAF Coastal Command built an airfield at Dounreay, called HMS Tern II, as a satellite of HMS Tern (Twatt, Orkney). A camp was built to house the workers who built the RAF aerodrome, and later the air crew and ground staff....
Breeder
The fast reactor was developed to “breed” plutonium from an otherwise unusable form of uranium metal. The uranium metal was packed in a blanket around the core where it absorbed fast neutrons from the nuclear reaction, turning it into plutonium....
Cementation plant
Dounreay reprocessed spent fuel from reactors for almost 40 years. The original design of the site included storage tanks for the waste liquor, or raffinate, that would be generated. Initially there was no long-term strategy for managing this waste other than keeping it in tanks....
Competition
The Energy Act that established the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in 2005 included a commitment to compete the work carried out at the sites it inherited from UKAEA and BNFL....
Consultation 2003-08
Dounreay recognised the importance of consulting widely about the options for particles in the marine environment before proceeding with the clean-up....
Consultations
Public expectations of the nuclear industry today are very different from those of previous generations....
Decommissioning
The facilities built at Dounreay to research and develop the fast reactor system of electricity production are no longer required, so they are being cleaned out and dismantled....
DFR History
History of DFR...
Dounreay Castle
Dounreay Castle is located at the mouth of the Mill Lade immediately north of the Dounreay licensed site. ...
Dounreay Communities Fund
Are you a community-based organisation or charity that benefits people in Caithness and North Sutherland?...
Dounreay Fast Reactor
The experimental fast breeder reactor at Dounreay led British research and development of nuclear energy during the 1950s and 60s....
Dounreay Materials Test Reactor
The Dounreay Materials Test Reactor was the first operational reactor in Scotland. It was constructed to test the effects of irradiation on metals. It began operating in 1958. ...
Dounreay News
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Emergency Arrangements
Emergency planning is an important part of the defence-in-depth approach to managing the radioactive and chemical hazards left over from the days of research and development at Dounreay....
End state of site
What condition should the Dounreay site be left in when decommissioning is complete?...
Environment
Our main aim is to protect people and the environment from our clean up operations. So we are constantly looking for ways to improve what we do. We recognise that our activities have risks that must be managed and controlled to minimise their impact on people and the environment....
Experimental criticality laboratory
For six years, at the height of Britain's expansion into nuclear energy in the 1950s and 60s, the experimental criticality laboratory carried out vital research....
FAQs - nuclear fuel
What is the difference between nuclear fuel and nuclear waste?...
Freedom of Information
DSRL welcomes interest in its work from members of the public....
Frequently Asked Questions
About Dounreay ...
Fuel Cycle Area
The Fuel Cycle Area (FCA) is the high security area within the licensed site, housing the facilities that historically handled and stored the site’s nuclear material and waste. Most of the buildings were built during the early construction phase of the site (1955-1959)....
Fuel pond
A pond for storing fuel irradiated inside the reactor was part of the construction of the DFR....
Gaseous
Radioactive waste is generated wherever nuclear materials exist. It can contaminate other materials, effluents and airflows....
Heritage Collections
Dounreay's visitor centre, located within the old aerodrome control tower, was demolished in 2007 due to structural problems following water damage. At the same time, the NDA and the UK Atomic Energy Authority gave a substantial financial contribution towards the design and construction of the Caithness Horizons museum located in Thurso's old town hall. ...
Heritage News
2009 2008...
Heritage Project
Since the early days of construction in 1955 right through to the present, Dounreay has had a dominant impact on the economic and social development of the region. The NDA and DSRL, in partnership with Historic Scotland and heritage professionals Atkins Heritage, have worked together to establish a way forward for creating a lasting cultural legacy of the site, by means of a strategy document....
Information for visitors
The site is closed to members of the public for safety and security reasons while it is decommissioned. ...
Infrastructure
Decommissioning the infrastructure that supported the fast reactor experiment is just as important as decommissioning the reactors themselves. In this section you will find more information about these projects....
Land
In August 2009, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd carried out a survey of fields adjacent to the site that are earmarked for development as a low-level waste disposal facility....
LLW national policy
Updated national policy for the management low-level radioactive waste in Scotland was published in March 2007....
Low level waste
Solid low level radioactive waste is generated wherever nuclear materials are handled - from hospitals, laboratories and industry as well as the nuclear fuel cycle....
Minor works
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New Low Level Waste Facilities
A new disposal facility is needed for low-level waste from the decommissioning of Dounreay and Vulcan....
New treatment plant
Intermediate-level waste exists at Dounreay in the form of solid items, liquids and sludges....
News Room
For the latest stories relating to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority you can access a live news feed showing recent external news coverage....
Non-radioactive waste
Waste is the product of decommissioning....
Nuclear Fuel
Dounreay’s purpose was to research and develop more efficient ways to generate electricity from uranium and plutonium...
Overseas fuel
Part of the site at Dounreay was devoted to the supply and recycling of specialist nuclear fuel....
Particle Clean-up
An important part of the work to close down Dounreay is to address its legacy of radioactive particles found in the marine environment around the site....
PFR History
Click here to access PFR History...
Plutonium criticality cell - D8550
The plutonium criticality laboratory, code-named D8550, was built in the 1950s to carry out criticality experiments on plutonium-bearing materials as D1249 had insufficient shielding for the work....
Primary coolant
Liquid metal was used in fast reactors to transfer the heat from the nuclear reaction in the core to the steam-generating plant where electricity was produced. The metal flowed between the core and the steam-generating plant through circuits linked by heat exchangers....
Prototype Fast Reactor
Dounreay's Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) was the second and last fast reactor to be built in the UK. The success of the experimental fast reactor at Dounreay led the British government in 1966 to order a prototype fast reactor power plant....
Public information
In the event of an emergency at Dounreay, the police will inform the public about what is happening and any precautions that may be necessary....
Reactor Dismantling
The reactor is to be dismantled by removing the vessel contents from the vault, thereby minimising the associated hazard and allowing final clearance of the site....
Research reactor fuel fabrication plant
The fuel fabrication plant was the first of the "atomic factories" built at Dounreay in the 1950s to become operational, and played a crucial part in the United Kingdom’s fast reactor research programme....
Research reactor fuel reprocessing plant
High enriched uranium (HEU) was a scarce commodity in the 1950s, and so spent fuel from the research reactors was recycled to recover the uranium for re-use....
Resilience and other links
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Safety
At Dounreay, we have high standards of health and safety. Our aim is to decommission the site safely and with no harm to people or the environment....
Security
The nature of the materials and hazards at Dounreay mean that the security of the site is a vitally important part of the decommissioning process....
Shaft and Silo
A vertical shaft was built at Dounreay in the 1950s to remove rock spoil during excavation of a subsea tunnel for the site's effluent discharge pipes. In 1958, it was authorised by the Government as a disposal facility for what today is known as intermediate-level waste....
Site Performance Report
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd publishes a monthly performance report, summarising progress to clean out and demolish the fast reactor experiment on behalf of the NDA. This report is issued to the site stakeholder group and distributed across the site as an insert to Dounreay News....
Social Responsibility
The impact of the clean-up closure of Dounreay is measured in different ways - from the health and safety of workers to the effect of emissions and discharges on the environment and the site's contribution to the social and economic wellbeing of the north Highlands....
Socio Economic Plan
The site closure programme at Dounreay is currently worth an estimated £80 million a year to the economy of Caithness and north Sutherland....
Subscribe to news@dounreay.com
Would you like to be updated regularly about news and publications posted on-line at the website of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd?...
Subsea pipeline and diffuser
The construction of Dounreay in the 1950s included a system for discharging low-level radioactive effluent to the sea....
Suppliers
Welcome to the suppliers area of the DSRL website which includes contract opportunities, instructions on how to express interest and information on our procurement strategy....
The retrieval plant
One of the biggest projects in the Dounreay clean-up is the retrieval from the shaft and silo of historic wastes....
Training at Naver
Training at Naver offers a wide range of training and development solutions and consultancy services. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of products and services and deliver open or bespoke programmes in the following areas:...
Uranium Recovery Plant
The uranium recovery plant was an integral part of the chemical processing of nuclear materials that took place in the Fuel Cycle Area until 1998....
Waste
Waste is the product of decommissioning....
88 news items
June performance report now online
26 July 2010
Dounreay's performance report for June has been published.
Latest issue of Dounreay News published
01 July 2010
The July issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
Plutonium facility clean-up captured on film
29 June 2010
A legacy of Dounreay’s commercial venture into nuclear reprocessing has been consigned to history.
Dounreay publishes May performance report
24 June 2010
Dounreay's performance report for May has been published.
Crane removal captured on film
21 June 2010
The removal of a building crane in one of Dounreay’s redundant facilities has been captured on film.
Redundant uranium plant is broken up
08 June 2010
A chemical plant built 20 years ago to process fuel from Germany’s high temperature reactor programme is the latest piece of Dounreay to be scrapped and turned into radioactive waste.
Classic film gets new lease of life
07 June 2010
A classic piece of Dounreay’s heritage from the 1950s has been given a new lease of life on the Internet.
June issue of Dounreay News online
02 June 2010
The June issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
Fire brigade extinguishes sodium outbreak
28 May 2010
At 0040hrs today, a fire alarm sounded inside the Prototype Fast Reactor complex. One person who was in the building at the time immediately evacuated the area.
Dounreay hosts technology trade show
27 May 2010
Some of Britain's leading suppliers of technology to the nuclear industry are at Dounreay today for the site's annual trade exhibition.
April issue of performance report published
24 May 2010
Dounreay's performance report for April has been published.
New films focus on waste shaft
21 May 2010
Two new films have been released about an underground shaft used for the disposal of intermediate level waste at Dounreay more than 30 years ago.
May issue of Dounreay site newspaper published
06 May 2010
The May issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
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.
Dounreay performance report for March published
28 April 2010
Dounreay's performance report for March has been published.
Film goes underground at Dounreay
22 April 2010
A £500,000 project to lay a new pipeline for radioactive effluent from the decommissioning of Dounreay is the subject of a new film.
April issue of Dounreay News published
08 April 2010
The latest issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
NDA sets out clean-up priorities for Dounreay
01 April 2010
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s annual business plan, published today, sets out the key activities it expects to see carried out at Dounreay over the next 12 months.
Tenders sought for new waste disposal site
31 March 2010
Companies are being invited to express interest in tendering for the design and construction of a disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste from the decommissioning of Dounreay and adjacent Vulcan facility.
Dounreay skills can harness power of the sea
31 March 2010
Skills built up in Britain’s most successful nuclear decommissioning project can power Scotland’s new era in electricity from the sea, industrialists in Aberdeen heard today.
National praise for Dounreay's work with schools
30 March 2010
Dounreay has won national recognition for its work to promote engineering and science in local schools.
February Performance Report published online
25 March 2010
Dounreay's performance report for February has been published.
Getting into shape for £150m programme
11 March 2010
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd this week updated staff and local community leaders about the shape of its decommissioning programme following January’s announcement about how much funding will be available in future.
March issue of Dounreay News published
03 March 2010
The March issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
Looking inside the Dounreay prototype fast reactor
25 February 2010
DSRL’s specialist in-house design team have designed some ingenious inventions over the years.
January issue of Performance Report published
22 February 2010
Dounreay's performance report for January 2010 has been published.
February issue of Dounreay News published
02 February 2010
The February issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.
DSRL welcomes assurance on funding
26 January 2010
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd today welcomed an announcement by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority about funding for the site beyond 2011.
Government consults on nuclear waste policy
19 January 2010
Decommissioning Dounreay generates a variety of different wastes that need to be managed carefully to protect the public and environment from harm. Some of this waste is radioactive.
Dounreay submits new proposal for lower discharges
22 December 2009
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has presented estimates of how much radioactivity it expects to dispose of during the remainder of the site clean-up and closure programme.
Dounreay newspapers scoop NDA awards
15 December 2009
Dounreay has won two awards in a competition to find the best examples of keeping people informed across Britain’s nuclear clean-up industry.
Partnering with Dounreay helps College win award
07 December 2009
A close partnering relationship with Dounreay helped the North Highland College UHI to scoop first prize in the Partnership category of the prestigious Scotland’s Colleges Annual Awards.
December issue of site newspaper now online
04 December 2009
The December issue of the Dounreay News has been published online.
October performance figures published online
02 December 2009
Dounreay's performance report for October has been published.
World's deepest clean-up job wins fourth top award
20 November 2009
The world's deepest nuclear clean-up job has won another top award for engineering excellence.
New report assesses public dose from Dounreay
19 November 2009
A new report provides an independent assessment of the levels of radioactivity that members of the public are exposed to near Dounreay.
Website survey results published
19 November 2009
Nine out of ten people who took part in a survey say their impression of Dounreay has changed for the better after using the dounreay.com website.
November Dounreay News online today
03 November 2009
The November issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, is available online.
September performance report published online
27 October 2009
DSRL's most recent monthly performance report has been published.
Top engineering award for shaft clean-up project
20 October 2009
Dounreay’s multi award-winning shaft clean-up project has earned yet another top engineering award.
October's Dounreay News published today
01 October 2009
The October issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, is available online.
Reactor decommissioning film goes live
01 October 2009
A new film has been produced showing the decommissioning progress within the redundant Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR).
'Decommissioning Dounreay' now on-line
29 September 2009
Scotland’s biggest nuclear decommissioning project is featured in a 32-page colour newspaper being distributed widely across the Northern Highlands.
August performance report available online
24 September 2009
DSRL's most recent monthly performance report has been published.
NDA launches competition for Dounreay
22 September 2009
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has launched its competition for the ownership of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.
DSRL's owners to be acquired by Babcock
18 September 2009
It was announced today that Babcock International Group PLC, the engineering support services company, is to acquire UKAEA Ltd, the parent company of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.
UK Minister sees first screening of new clean-up film
07 September 2009
UK Government Minister Lord Hunt today visited the site of Scotland’s most successful nuclear clean-up project and watched the first screening of a film about its clean-out and demolition.
September's Dounreay News now published
01 September 2009
The September issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, has been published.
July site performance report now online
26 August 2009
The site clean-up performance report for July 2009 has now been published.
Clean-up removes 29 "significant" particles from seabed
19 August 2009
More than a hundred fragments of spent nuclear fuel were removed from the seabed in the latest phase of work to clean up and shut down the former nuclear research site at Dounreay.
Free poster shows clean-up progress under NDA
05 August 2009
Fifty-two buildings flattened, an area of the site equivalent to three football pitches razed to the ground, no nuclear accidents and a five-fold reduction in injuries . . .
August issue of site newspaper online
03 August 2009
The August issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, is available online.
June performance report published
29 July 2009
The site clean-up performance report for June 2009 has now been published.
July's issue of Dounreay News available online
03 July 2009
The June issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, is available to read online.
Dounreay publishes its monthly performance report for May
01 July 2009
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has published its monthly performance report for May.
New film captures clean-up progress
17 June 2009
A new film about decommissioning Dounreay gets its first public screening today at a national stakeholder event in Manchester run by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Offshore clean-up set to resume
04 June 2009
An area of seabed equivalent in size to more than 10 football pitches is to be monitored over the summer during the next phase of implementation of Dounreay’s particle recovery programme.
June issue of Dounreay News published today
29 May 2009
The June issue of the site's monthly newspaper, Dounreay News, is available online.
Performance Report for March now published
01 May 2009
The site clean-up performance report for March 2009 has now been published.
May issue of Dounreay News online now
01 May 2009
The May issue of Dounreay News has been published and is available on the website.
April 'Dounreay News' published today
01 April 2009
The new look Dounreay News is on the site's news stands today.
February site performance report out today
01 April 2009
The site clean-up performance report for February 2009 has now been published.
Shaft clean-up hailed by more award judges
16 March 2009
Dounreay’s award-winning shaft clean-up project has earned more industry plaudits.
Caithness scoops national industry skills awards
13 March 2009
To view video footage of interviews with the winners of the awards click on the following link: http://www.nuclear.nsacademy.co.uk/node/907
March issue of Dounreay News now published
02 March 2009
The March issue of Dounreay News has now been published.
Dounreay's performance report for January now available
02 March 2009
The site clean-up performance report for January 2009 has now been published.
February issue of Dounreay News now available
03 February 2009
The February issue of the site's newspaper is now available. Once again, it's a bumper 16-page edition.
Plasma-arc cuts through old fuel plant
29 January 2009
Dounreay's latest monthly performance report is now available.
December issue of Dounreay News now published
03 December 2008
The December issue of the site's magazine, Dounreay News, has now been published. This month its a bumper 16-page edition.
October's site performance report is out now
03 December 2008
The site's performance report for October has been published.
TV viewers look inside historic plutonium cell
20 November 2008
Fifty years ago, it was the hub of plutonium research in the UK. Today, all that remains is a shell of a building awaiting demolition.
November's Dounreay News out now
03 November 2008
The November issue of the site's newspaper, Dounreay News, was published today.
September's Performance Report published
03 November 2008
Dounreay's latest monthly performance report has been published.
Clean-up featured in 32-page colour tabloid
01 October 2008
More than 100 images of decommissioning work at Dounreay are featured in a 32-page, full-colour supplement published by North of Scotland Newspapers.
Dounreay News published
29 September 2008
The October edition has been published of Dounreay News, the monthly site newspaper.
August performance report published
29 September 2008
Dounreay's latest monthly performance report has been published.
September issue of 'Dounreay News' published
01 September 2008
The September issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has been published.
Demolition of "atomic factory" broadcast via Internet
21 August 2008
>Demolition of Scotland’s “atomic factory” is now being broadcast on the Internet.
August issue of Dounreay News published today
01 August 2008
The August issue of the site's newspaper, Dounreay News, has been published.
Dounreay history brings windfall for charities
28 July 2008
Charities in Caithness and north Sutherland are set for a cash windfall thanks to a new book marking the 50th anniversary of the nuclear experiment at Dounreay.
Dounreay's pioneering history is retold in 50th anniversary book
09 July 2008
A new book captures the remarkable story of how a remote farming area in the Scottish Highlands was catapulted to the forefront of nuclear development 50 years ago.
2025 vision of Dounreay's waste is published
01 July 2008
Dounreay today paints the most vivid picture yet of how the site will look once decommissioning is complete in 2025.
Book to tell 50 years of Dounreay
20 June 2008
The story of Dounreay, its leading role in the world quest for energy and its impact on the wellbeing of the far north of Scotland are all captured in a new book to be published next month.
June issue of Dounreay News published
30 May 2008
The June issue of the site's newspaper Dounreay News has been published.
Site publishes monthly performance report
28 May 2008
A new monthly performance report is published today by Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.
Dounreay to issue new performance report
15 May 2008
A new monthly performance report is to be published by Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd.
Dounreay News May edition
01 May 2008
The May issue of the site's newspaper, Dounreay News, has been published. To read, click here
Dounreay News April edition
01 April 2008
The April issue of the Dounreay News, the site's newspaper, has now been published.
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