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• Preparations for Dounreay waste retrieval

  The UK is preparing to remove and package more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste from its fast reactor experiments at Dounreay that has been buried in two underground vaults for up to 50 years. Posted Sep 25 2009, 09:53 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Dounreay, radioactive waste storage, waste, fast reactor, buried

• Competition to manage Dounreay launched

  The search is on for a new organization to oversee decommissioning at the Dounreay site, where £155 million ($253 million) in clean-up work takes place each year. The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) launched the competition to select a Parent Body Organization (PBO) for Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), which will own the shares in the Dounreay Site Licence Company for the duration of the contract. DSRL manages and operates the Dounreay site on behalf of the NDA. The NDA said that the appointed PBO will "provide the vision for the optimal accomplishment of the site's mission." The average annual spend at the SLC over the past five years has been some £155 million ($253 million). The NDA said that the fee for the contract is related to the annual spend, risk and opportunities, and performance. Graeme Rankin, the competition project manager, welcomed the "much-awaited official start of the competition." He said, "We look forward to engaging with competitors over the coming months and are committed to securing the best possible PBO for the Dounreay site." Dounreay was the UK's centre for experimental fast breeder research and development from 1954 until 1994. The site is now being decommissioned under a program that is expected to cost an estimated £2.5 billion ($5 billion) and will involve the gradual dismantling and removal of plant and facilities on site over the next 20 years. Posted Sep 22 2009, 08:02 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Dounreay, nda, Parent Body Organization, pbo, UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, dsrl, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd

• Sodium secrets revealed

  This ghostly scene shows the highly radioactive sodium residues that built up on insulation plates within the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) at Dounreay, Scotland. Posted Feb 26 2009, 11:36 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay, Prototype Fast Reactor, Sodium

• Dounreay sodium desposits

  Posted Feb 26 2009, 10:43 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay, Sodium

• Dounreay pond cleanup a 'great achievement'

  The cleanup of the first fuel pond at Dounreay, the UK's former fast reactor research and development centre, has been completed. Posted Dec 16 2008, 11:48 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay

• The glass is always greener...

  This glowing green form is the latest addition to the National Museum of Scotland: a uranium glass representation of the two fast-breeder reactors at Dounreay which glows strongly under ultraviolet light. Posted Dec 15 2008, 10:50 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay

• Competition strategy for remaining NDA sites

  The UK's NDA has announced the competition strategy for selecting who will manage the cleanup of Dounreay and the Magnox generation sites. Posted Dec 08 2008, 11:48 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Dounreay

• Tuning in to site security at Dounreay

  [Dounreay News, December] Workers at the UKAEA's Dounreay plant in the UK will each receive a free wind-up radio, with a built-in torch, if there are no security breaches at the site over a 60-day period. The challenge has been set "to raise the profile of site security and to increase awareness of site security policies and regulations." Dounreay was the UK's centre for experimental fast breeder research and development from 1954 until 1994. The site is now being decommissioned under a program that is expected to cost an estimated £2.5 billion ($5 billion) and will involve the gradual dismantling and removal of plant and facilities on site over the next 20 years. Posted Dec 05 2008, 07:43 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay

• Liquid metal destruction is complete

  Clean-up workers at Dounreay celebrated what they called a 'milestone' in the dismantling of the former research site. A plant built to destroy radioactive liquid sodium coolant has neutralised 1533 tonnes of the material. Posted Aug 19 2008, 09:55 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay

• Dounreay waste plan moves ahead

  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has completed its assessment of an planning application the construction of low-level waste facilities at Dounreay. It has recommended that some conditions are imposed. Posted Jul 25 2008, 05:49 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Dounreay, low-level waste facility

• Dounreay to make a break

  Workers at the former research site at Dounreay, Scotland, are preparing to break open and remotely dismantle equipment within a used nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Robots will tackle pipework within the 50-year-old facility. Posted Jun 16 2008, 12:14 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: decomissioning, Scotland, Dounreay