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ROBOTS are being employed to help clean up Dounreay. Decommissioning bosses have turned to specialist demolition firm Brokk to supply the remotely-operated equipment that can work inside cells and a pond where radiation levels are still too high for human access. The robots – mounted on tracks like a construction excavator and powered by electricity – have been fitted with specially-designed tools. They will go inside the cells and pond to cut up and package the vessels and pipes where more than 10,000 spent fuel elements were dissolved and reprocessed before the plant shut down in 1996.
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THE construction of the world’s largest tidal farm off the north of Scotland could put lives at risk by disturbing thousands of radioactive particles from the Dounreay nuclear plant, a government adviser has warned. Dr John Large, an independent nuclear consultant who has advised the UK government, fears that laying cables to connect turbines to the national grid would release nuclear waste buried in the seabed.
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WORK to remove one of the most persistent problems affecting the clean-up of the Dounreay nuclear site has begun beneath the waves off Caithness. A remotely operated vehicle is combing the seabed to find the worst of the radioactive particles that have caused concern for more than quarter of a century. Up to £25 million will be spent on covering an area the size of 60 football pitches and on monitoring up to the 2020s.
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Local residents are set to oppose the construction of a proposed £110m nuclear waste treatment next to the Dounreay power plant in Scotland. The opposition comes despite the scheme winning the conditional backing of the Scottish Environmental Proection Agency (Sepa), according to the Scotsman.
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A SCOTTISH Government minister yesterday visited Dounreay to witness the dismantling of the plants that once supported Britain’s nuclear research programme. Richard Lochhead, the minister for rural affairs and the environment, spent time at the Caithness site to see for himself how waste from the shutdown and clean-up of Scotland’s biggest nuclear site is being managed.
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HE cost of maintaining the Dounreay nuclear plant since 2000 has climbed above £1 billion. Malcolm Wicks, the energy minister, said the actual costs since then amounted to £1.145 billion and the bill last year was £137.5 million.
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Dounreay’s operators are being warned to expect a fierce challenge to their bid to build a new low-level waste dump. Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) has earmarked ground to the south-east of the nuclear plant, between the licensed site boundary and the cluster of houses at Buldoo.
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