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Just the bare 60 years later, they will start to dismantle UK’s Dounreay nuclear reactor

Scotland’s oldest nuclear reactor to go as demolition contract awarded, The decommissioning of Dounreay’s oldest nuclear reactor has taken a major step forward with the award of a multi-million pound contract  Gov. UK 14 December 2018 

Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) was the first operational nuclear reactor in Scotland and achieved criticality in 1958. It was built to test the effects of radiation on different materials and operated for 11 years………

The 3-year contract has now been awarded to Cavendish Nuclear and its partners, local firm JGC Engineering, KDC and Frazer-Nash Consultancy, for the dismantling of the reactor block and demolition of the structure.

This is the culmination of a decade-long project to remove the internal structures from the reactor and its support buildings including a fuel storage pond, waste drum store and post-irradiation examination cells.

………Dounreay, which was once the UK’s centre for fast reactor research, is now Scotland’s largest decommissioning project. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/scotlands-oldest-nuclear-reactor-to-go-as-demolition-contract-awarded

December 15, 2018 - Posted by | decommission reactor, UK

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