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A new film is offering a unique insight to the work going on to take apart one of the most complex nuclear sites in Europe.
The clean-up of the nuclear estate is a key priority for both the Scottish and United Kingdom governments.
A robotic demolition machine has been used to help decommission a former reactor support building.
Dounreay is looking for the next intake of apprentices.
A major upgrade and expansion of Dounreay’s Thurso town centre office has been completed.
Engineering, science and business graduates are being offered the chance to work on 1 of Europe’s most complex closure programmes.
Dounreay's photographic collection has been transferred to Nucleus, the nuclear and Caithness archive.
Removal of the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) pond wall is underway.
Dounreay staff dug deep into their pockets in December to support a local children’s gift appeal.
More than 30,000 bricks have been removed from 3 pits in a redundant facility as part of a project to decommission a former effluent treatment plant.
Work has started to cut up the Dounreay Fast Reactor pond wall using a remotely operated saw.
Profile Security Services has won a prestigious Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) supply chain award for its work at Dounreay.
Simon Middlemas OBE and Bill Root have been appointed as non-executive directors of the Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) Board.
Disposal of the first component removed from the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) is now complete.
Dounreay recently hosted a visit of senior Japanese dignitaries on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract to design and build a new effluent treatment plant at Dounreay.
NDA welcomed the opportunity to share decommissioning progress at its most northern site with the Japanese Ambassador to the UK.
2016 intake of Dounreay apprentices.
The last of the higher activity liquid waste produced during Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) fuel reprocessing has been made safe for future generations.
Three Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) ambassadors from Dounreay have been inspiring youngsters at a local primary school.
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