Dounreay recycles 98% of reactor decommissioning waste. The UK site’s oldest reactor, the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor, is being demolished and the waste recycled. The fuel element storage block has now been demolished. This steel tank was 4.7m high and 2.8m in diameter, surrounded by an iron-shot concrete cylinder, and was capped off by a thick steel top plate. Historically it housed cooling irradiated fuel elements after their removal from the reactor. During its dismantling, workers segregated recyclable and re-usable … read more »
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