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Dounreay Archive News Index
18 December 03
PREPARING THE GROUND FOR NEW WASTE FACILITY
 The enabling works for a proposed waste transfer
facility at the Dounreay cementation plant store are nearing completion.
The work has been carried out in four distinct parts. Building
demolition has been carried out by J Gunn & Sons Ltd, new service gantry
completed by Johnson Controls and D Gow & Sons Ltd and road
re-alignment, drainage and excavation works by M M Miller (Contractors)
Wick.
16 December 03
Younger People And British
The Nuclear Energy Society - New Group
Do you have an active interest in nuclear energy matters? - You do not
need to work at Dounreay to join.
If you work or are interested in the nuclear industry then a new email
group could be of interest to you. This new branch of the
British Nuclear energy Society is based at Dounreay and is setting up an
email group to keep younger members informed of what is happening.
Are you a BNES member or simply interested in hearing more about the
opportunities the BNES and YGN offer, in particular the Dounreay BNES
Branch??...Opportunities such as: Conferences Seminars Lectures Technical
Visits BNES Journal..... the list goes on....The newly formed Dounreay
BNES branch is looking to construct a circulation list of:
BNES members Those interested in becoming BNES members OR simply
interested in being kept informed of BNES Activities......
15 December 03
UKAEA Awards £90 Million Contract (Biggest
Ever) To RWE Nukem
UKAEA has awarded a ten-year contract, worth upwards of £90 million, to
RWE NUKEM for radiological protection services across all its sites. The
contract - extendable to 15 years depending on performance - is one of the
largest single contracts ever let by UKAEA and was awarded after a
competitive tendering exercise. The contract covers the full range
of radiological protection services including health physics monitoring,
radiological protection advice and an Approved Dosimetry Service that
includes monitoring of personal radiation film badges. It covers UKAEA's
decommissioning sites at Dounreay, Caithness, Windscale, Cumbria, Harwell,
Oxfordshire and Winfrith, Dorset, together with some services at the
fusion research centre at Culham, also in Oxfordshire......
6 December 03
Visitors From Ukraine
 Mr
Vasyly Kuts and Mr Volodymyr Kolochko from Ukraine visited UKAEA Dounreay
this week during their week long stay in the UK. The purpose of their
visit was to discuss and view Waste & Decommissioning Strategies at
Dounreay. They are pictured here with Derek Campbell of UKAEA during their
tour of the Dounreay Cementation Plant
6 December
03
French Students Check Out Dounreay
 A
group of French students and staff from The UHI Environmental Research
Institute visited UKAEA Dounreay this week. They are pictured with Marie
Mackay, Dounreay Communications - left - during their tour of the site.
While at Dounreay they also visited the Dounreay Cementation Plant and the
Waste Receipt Assay Characterisation and Supercompaction facility
21 November 03
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN
END STATE OF WASTE SHAFT
Consultation Period Launched - Closing Date 7 February 2004
UKAEA is today inviting members of the public to participate in the choice
of Best Practicable Environmental Option for remediation of the rock
around the waste shaft at Dounreay. Options for remediating the rock
once the waste has been removed range from natural decay of the
radioactivity to quarrying large quantities of rock from beneath the
seabed for disposal as low level waste. UKAEA is consulting the
public now because the agreed “end state” for decommissioning the shaft
will be an important factor in choosing the most appropriate techniques
for its hydraulic isolation and retrieval of the waste..........
19 November 03
Committee on Radioactive Waste Management Appoints
18 November 03
Highlands And Islands
Enterprise Board Visits Dounreay
 12
members of the Highlands & Islands Enterprise Board visited Dounreay
recently for a presentation on Dounreay issues and a tour of the site.
18 November 03
A Nostalgic
Visit
 John Lisman
was a civil engineering student at Strathclyde University when, in 1954,
he was offered a one year practical experience job with Glasgow firm,
Whatlings Ltd. Within a few months, the Inverness born student was
despatched to Dounreay where the firm was awarded the main building and
civil engineering contract. His ‘home from home’ became the Boston Camp.
15 November 03
URANIUM LINES ARE CLEANED
OUT
 UKAEA
has completed the post-operational clean-out of a redundant uranium
processing facility in preparation for its eventual decommissioning. The
Amber Area - an annexe of the D1203 uranium recovery plant - contains
solvent extraction and dissolver equipment, storage tanks and glove boxes
that were used to process uranium. Work started in 1998 to prepare for the
clean-out of these facilities with the design and installation of new
ventilation equipment manufactured by local engineering companies. This
enabled staff to carry out detailed surveys of the work required to clean
out the facility. Over an 18-month period, more than 1400 entries were
made by staff wearing protective air-line suits to clean out all the waste
residue. This produced approximately 250 drums of solid low-level
waste................
13 November 03
SKYLINE CHANGES AGAIN AS BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED
 More
demolition of redundant buildings has brought further changes to the
skyline at Dounreay. The latest facilities to be knocked down are the
old farmhouse and the former fast reactor facilities building known as
D8542.
7 November 03
NEW UKAEA CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPOINTED
Former BP Senior Executive to lead pioneering
authority
The Minister of Energy,
Stephen Timms, has appointed Mr Dipesh J Shah as the new Chief Executive
to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in succession to Dr
John McKeown. He will take up his appointment on November 15, 2003.
Dipesh Shah, 50, has spent most of his career at BP plc. Before leaving BP
late in 2002 he was Vice President, Acquisitions and Divestments. Prior to
that he had been CEO for the Forties Pipeline System and General Manager
of the BP Grangemouth complex........
7 November 03
Japanese
Visitors At Dounreay
 Seven
members of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations Members visited
Dounreay recently. They are part of a Committee making studies on
pollution control and preservation of environment. During their visit
they had a site tour and received a presentation on Dounreay's past,
present and future.
28 October 03
PETER WELSH RETIRES AS DOUNREAY DIRECTOR
 Peter Welsh
retired as director of Dounreay on 29 October 2003 after five years in
charge of the site. He took over in August 1998 during one of the site's
most difficult periods and immediately took charge of the site's
response to 143 recommendations made by regulators in their 1998
Safety Audit.
21 October 03
From The Scotsman
Dounreay director
rues rabbit drop-in
PETER Welsh is in charge of
an industrial site which is spending £150 million a year, and over the
next 50 years will let contracts worth £4 billion. It therefore annoys him
somewhat that he can be upstaged by a rabbit.
20 October 03
UNIVERSITY
SPIN-OFF FROM
UK/FRANCE DECOMMISSIONING AGREEMENT
 UKAEA Dounreay and the UHI Millennium Institute are to collaborate
with their counterparts in France in a ground-breaking initiative to
establish common international standards in decommissioning
qualifications. An agreement to share decommissioning knowledge and
experience has been in place between the UKAEA and the French agency CEA
(Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) since 1999. This has now been
expanded to include education and skills training in decommissioning
through UHI, the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble and the
National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and
Techniques (INSTN), CEA's training and education arm.
18 October 03
NOSTALGIC RETURN TO DOUNREAY
FOR FORMER FARM RESIDENTS
Guests of honour at opening of £5 million
complex.
 Two
of the last people to live on a Caithness farm before it was
transformed during the 1950s into a world-leading centre for research
and development of nuclear energy today returned to their former home to
set the seal on a £5 million investment in its decommissioning. The
farm at Lower Dounreay was home to Mrs Elizabeth Nicolson until 1945,
and Mr Morris Pottinger until May 1956. The UK Atomic Energy
Authority acquired the house and farmland from Mr Pottinger and his late
wife Nettie in November 1955 following a Government announcement that
Britain's fast reactor experiment would be sited at Dounreay.
The Dounreay farmhouse dates from 1859. Following its acquisition by the
UKAEA in 1955, it was used variously for office accommodation and storage
of archive material.
15 October 03
UKAEA ANNOUNCES PREFERRED BIDDERS FOR
CONDITIONED WASTE STORE
Multi-million Pound Contract Will Create 200 New Jobs
 Four
companies have been named today as the preferred bidders to form a
design alliance with the UK Atomic Energy Authority for one of the
largest construction projects in the Dounreay Site Restoration Plan.
Atkins (design integrator), Serco Assurance (building services and
safety and environment), Taylor Woodrow (civil engineering) and Weir
Strachan & Henshaw (mechanical handling) will work with UKAEA to form
an integrated team capable of providing a concept design for a solid
intermediate-level waste store in 2004 and the detailed design by 2005.
7 October 03
DOUNREAY DELIVERS ANNUAL REPORT
ON SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
The UK Atomic Energy Authority today delivered its annual report on
safety and the environment at Dounreay during 2002/03 to the site's local
liaison committee. Dr Guy Owen, UKAEA's head of safety and
environment at Dounreay, said the site continued to be one of the safest
industrial workplaces in the UK but insisted there was no room for
complacency.
2 October 03
US COMPANY TO HELP
UKAEA GEAR UP FOR NEW CHALLENGE
UKAEA has awarded a contract to
CH2M Hill to help it prepare for changes in the way the UK Government
manages the decommissioning of UKAEA and BNFL sites. The company will
assist UKAEA to develop the processes and procedures needed to meet the
requirements of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which is due to
come into being in 2005. At Dounreay, this will involve an employee of
CH2M Hill joining the team that is producing lifecycle baselines and near
term work plans. CH2M Hill is an American environmental management company
whose management of the US Department of Energy’s site at Rocky Flats,
Colorado, is regarded as a model for the approach which the Liabilities
Management Unit of DTI, the forerunner of the NDA, is seeking to introduce
to the UK nuclear decommissioning programme.
2 October
03
AMEC WINS CONTRACT
FOR SUBSTATION EXTENSION
UKAEA has awarded a contract to
AMEC for the construction of an extension to the electrical substation
that serves the complex of waste management plants at Dounreay. The
project is designed to double the capacity of the station to meet the
predicted growth in demand for electricity from new construction and plant
modernisation in this area of the site. The total value of this work is
expected to be in the region of £1 million. Construction is expected to
take until May 2004 to complete.
2 October
03
LOCAL COMPANY MAKES TOOL
TO SAMPLE LIQUID METAL IN REACTOR
A local engineering firm is
constructing a 3m-long tool that will sample the liquid metal surface in
the primary cooling circuit of the experimental Dounreay Fast Reactor.
Norfrost Technologies Ltd was awarded
a contract to design and manufacture the device. It will penetrate the
rotating shield of the reactor, cut out samples of the oxide crust that
has formed on the sodium-potassium alloy and lift the samples vertically
to a glove-box attached to the top of the tool on the floor of the reactor
hall. From there, the samples will be removed to a laboratory on site for
X-ray diffractometry. The tool is currently under construction in the
Castletown workshop of Norfrost Technologies Ltd. UKAEA expects to use the
results of the analysis to support the safety case for the destruction of
the 57 tonnes of sodium-potassium in the primary circuit of the reactor.
2 October 03
FORMER WASTE STORE IS DEMOLISHED
A disused storage facility for
drums of radioactive waste is the latest building at Dounreay to be
demolished. The decommissioning and demolition of the building known as
D1254 took 15 months to complete. The decommissioning work was carried out
by UKAEA and Mitsui Babcock personnel while the demolition work was
carried out by Gunn’s of Lybster.
2 October 03
CONTRACT AWARDED FOR LATEST PHASE OF DEMOLITION WORK
Further evidence that
decommissioning is gathering pace Dounreay has come with the award of a
demolition contract to KDC Contractors Ltd, of Manchester. The contract,
valued at around £140,000, is for the demolition of the fast reactor
facilities building and the original Lower Dounreay farmhouse. The
demolition of both buildings is necessary in order to make way for the
construction of major new facilities for the retrieval and treatment of
wastes from two authorised disposal and storage facilities - the shaft and
silo.
The facilities building, built in 1961, provided engineering and
experimental laboratory facilities for the fast reactor programme. The
farmhouse (circa 1900) has been variously used by UKAEA, including storage
of the site archives. Joe McVey, senior project manager for the
demolitions, said the award of this contract was a major step forward in
Dounreay's decommissioning programme because it will clear the ground for
the provision of important new waste management facilities. "The
demolition of these buildings will be further tangible proof that UKAEA is
progressing with decommissioning."
30 September 03
Dounreay Local Liaison Committee Visit
The Cementation Plant
 Dounreay
Local Liaison Committee took the opportunity to visit the Cementation
Plant during their recent briefing session at Dounreay. They are pictured
with Tony Wratten (right) of UKAEA. The local liaison
committee is made up of a number of local people and councillors as part
of UKAEA's open approach to the work being carried out at the site.
17
September 03
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
IN OPTIONS FOR LOW LEVEL WASTE AT DOUNREAY
Options for the long-term
management of solid low level radioactive waste from the decommissioning
of Dounreay are the subject of a public consultation announced today by
the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Approximately 100,000 cubic
metres of solid low level waste (LLW) is expected to arise during the
50-60 year life of the Dounreay Site Restoration Plan.
16 September 03
NEW
DIRECTOR OF DOUNREAY APPOINTED
 Norman
Harrison will lead £4bn Site Restoration Programme The Secretary of
State for Trade and Industry has appointed Mr Norman Harrison as
Director, Dounreay, and a Member of the UKAEA Board. He will succeed Mr
Peter Welsh, who is retiring on 31 October 2003. Manchester-born
Norman Harrison, 51, is currently director of Sizewell B, British
Energy's Pressurised Water Reactor station in Suffolk. He has been in the
power industry for 25 years, starting as an assistant chemist with a
coal-fired power station in his home town and followed by appointments at
a number of north-west power stations. Prior to Sizewell B he was
station director at Heysham 1 in Lancashire...................
5 September 03
SCOTLAND'S FIRST REACTOR REACHES
FINAL STAGE OF
DECOMMISSIONING
 Scotland's first operational nuclear reactor is
one step away from its complete decommissioning. The penultimate stage of decommissioning the
Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) has been completed, leaving
the reactor block ready for demolition following a period of passive care
and maintenance to allow for further radioactive decay. DMTR was one
of three reactors built and operated at UKAEA Dounreay between 1958 and
1994. All three reactors are now in their decommissioning stages.
4 September 03
TEENAGERS LEAD
BRITAIN IN
DECOMMISSIONING APPRENTICESHIP
 Britain's
first modern apprentices in nuclear operations and
decommissioning have started a three-year training programme at the
leading edge of Britain's nuclear clean-up. Five young
people from Caithness have joined a pilot initiative set up by the UK
Atomic Energy Authority to teach them the skills needed to dismantle the
former experimental reactor establishment at Dounreay. They are
among 21 young people recruited this summer to UKAEA training schemes -
the highest intake of young people at the Caithness site for over a
decade.
31 August 03
NEW
FORSS BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
UP
AND RUNNING
The first tenants of the newly refurbished
accommodation at Forss Business and Technology Park have
completed the three-mile journey from Dounreay. Staff from the
Major Projects Engineering Division, UKAEA have begun to
populate the former derelict Naval Base at Forss bringing it
back to life...........
26 August 03
UKAEA
Annual Review 2002/03 Just Out
The Review contains a month-by-month summary of UKAEA’s key
achievements across all areas of its environmental restoration and fusion
research activities. The review is in Pdf format.
Dounreay
Radioactive
Solvents And Oils
Options Consultation
Closes 30 September 03
25 August 03
DECOMMISSIONING MILESTONE IS SET
IN CEMENT
Decommissioning of the former experimental reactor
establishment at Dounreay has taken another important step
forward with the green light to empty a series of tanks
containing a legacy of radioactive liquid waste from the
site's reprocessing era. The liquid will be
transferred from underground storage tanks to a modern
treatment plant where it will be mixed with cement and set
inside 500-litre drums. It is expected to take 10-15
years to empty and solidify the contents of all the tanks.
The contents - an acidic liquor containing fission products
- were created by the chemical separation of irradiated
reactor fuel undertaken at Dounreay until 1996.......
1 August 03
SEPA Management of
Dounreay Regulation
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
has announced a number of changes to its internal procedures
for regulating Dounreay. The action follows the
recommendations of an inquiry, commissioned by SEPA, which
highlighted weaknesses in communications and management
systems.
16 July 03
MAJOR CHANGES TO DOUNREAY AUTHORISATION
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has made
significant changes to the authorisation covering UKAEA
Dounreay's discharges of gaseous radioactive waste. The
changes mean a cut of 59% in the quantity of tritium that
the site is allowed to release to the environment and will
come into effect on Friday 18 July. The change also
permits the operation of UKAEA's new facility for collecting
and disposing of liquid waste to sea. This facility, known
as the Low Level Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant (LLLETP),
will replace the old sea discharge tanks that were the
subject of a SEPA enforcement notice in January 2002.
UKAEA is required by SEPA to improve the discharge system
for gaseous waste from the main facilities in the fuel cycle
area (FCA).............................
10 July 03
UKAEA ANNOUNCES CONTRACT TO
DECOMMISSION
WESTERN EUROPE'S FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR
 The
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) today announced the
final decommissioning of the first reactor in Western Europe. GLEEP -
the Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile - first went critical in 1947
and was shut down in 1990. The contract for its
dismantling has been let to Renfrew based Mitsui Babcock.
Decommissioning is planned to be completed by autumn 2004. GLEEP
played a key role in the development of civil nuclear energy in
Britain. It was used in investigations into how to make a nuclear
reactor work including the early design and development of Magnox nuclear
fuel used in commercial generating stations operating today.
9 July 03
PARTICLE 41 FOUND
Same details as earlier finds.
1 July 03
UKAEA LAUNCHES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
IN DISPOSAL OF SOLVENTS AND OILS
The closing date for comments is
30 September 2003.
UKAEA Dounreay today invited
members of the public to have their say in the options for disposal of
radioactive solvents and oils that are a legacy of fast reactor research
and development at the Caithness site. Launching the second
stage of a pilot for public participation in the Dounreay Site
Restoration Plan, site director Peter Welsh said it was a new opportunity
for individuals and organisations to communicate directly with UKAEA about
how the site is decommissioned and its environment restored.
27 June 03
RABBIT TEST RESULTS SENT TO FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY
UKAEA Dounreay today has sent to the Scottish Environment Protection
Agency and the Food Standards Agency the findings of laboratory tests
carried out on rabbit faeces found in an area of the site historically
used for the burial of low-level waste.
25 June 03
UKAEA COMMITTED TO
BEING SUPPLIER OF CHOICE TO NDA
Draft Nuclear Sites and Radioactive
Substances Bill
UKAEA is determined to be the
chosen supplier of choice to the new Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
for the management of its former nuclear research sites............
24 June 03
Creation Of Nuclear Clean Up Body
13 May 03
FURTHER INVESTMENT AT FORSS
 Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise (CASE) has committed a further
£440,000 towards the creation of a hi-tech business park near Thurso. In
addition the project has secured £732,545 from the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF). The former Forss US Naval Base - which has
been idle for over a decade - is being transformed into a Business and
Technology Park, which is set to attract tenants associated with the
decommissioning of the nearby Dounreay nuclear plant.......................................
12 May 03
PARTICLE FIND 39
A suspected radioactive particle resulting from historical
operations at Dounreay was found during routine monitoring of Sandside
Beach today.........................
29 April
03
TREATMENT PLANT TO CLEAN UP EFFLUENT FROM
REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING
The UK Atomic Energy
Authority has applied for planning permission to construct a new
plant to clean up radioactive effluent that will arise during the next
phase of decommissioning the Prototype Fast Reactor at Dounreay.
The £2.4 million project will remove radioactivity from the effluent
before it is discharged to the sea. Since the reactor closed in
1994, the fuel has been removed and a £17 million plant built to destroy
the 1500 tonnes of sodium liquid metal used as coolant.
10 April 03
PARTICLE 36 FIND ON SANDSIDE BEACH
Another suspected radioactive particle resulting from historical
operations at Dounreay was found during routine monitoring of Sandside
Beach today. It was the second to be found today.
10 April 03
STATEMENT
from SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY
PARTICLES HEALTH EFFECTS RESEARCH
SEPA has published the most recent report from its research project into
the health effects of particles from Dounreay. The report is a
review of the procedures used for monitoring Sandside beach. It also
calculates the minimum detectable particle activity and compares it with
statutory requirements, and reviews two documents which comment on the
procedures used at Sandside.
10 April 03
PARTICLE 35 FIND ON SANDSIDE BEACH
8 April 03
PARTICLE 34 FIND ON SANDSIDE BEACH
4 April 03
Daughters At Work Day
 Daughters
and Sons who came to Dounreay for Daughters to Work Day on Thursday 3rd
April 2003. The initiative is spearheaded by the Girl Guides UK to give
girls a chance to expand their horizons in thinking about their future
careers. This year however UKAEA Dounreay decided to extend the day to
sons as well. 57 daughters and sons visited the site. During their visit
they spent time with their parents, toured the site, visited the emergency
services and received talks by female members of staff and from the
training department on what careers are available at Dounreay........
31 March 03
30th Particle Find
26 March 03
HIGHLANDS CAN HAVE LEADING EDGE
IN DECOMMISSIONING SKILLS SECTOR
A conference in Inverness today heard how
the growth of new skills in nuclear decommissioning at Dounreay can
become an important asset in the sustainable development of the Highland
economy. Many of the skills being developed in and around
Dounreay in support of Britain's most complex nuclear site restoration
project to date will be in growing demand as more former nuclear
facilities are decommissioned, giving the Highland economy a leading edge,
according to the site's director.
20 March 03
29th
PARTICLE FIND ON SANDSIDE BEACH
18 March 03
DOUNREAY LAUNCHES FIRST APPRENTICESHIPS IN
DECOMMISSIONING
Young people are to be offered apprenticeships in nuclear
decommissioning for the first time at Dounreay as part of the £4
billion programme to dismantle the experimental reactor establishment.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority today announced it is setting up a
pilot scheme with the aim of creating the first Modern Apprenticeship in
Nuclear Operations and Decommissioning in the UK. An initial four young
people will be recruited over the next few months to begin their
apprenticeship in August..........................
17 March 03
MAJOR PROJECTS
TEAM TO SET UP HQ ON NEW DECOMMISSIONING BUSINESS PARK
A new division of the UK Atomic Energy Authority set up to help
deliver the environmental restoration of former nuclear research
facilities such as Dounreay is to be based on a business park being
developed in Caithness by the private sector. Approximately 140
members of staff of currently based at Dounreay are expected to take
up occupancy at Forss in the summer......................................
11 March 03
SEERAD Visit
 Members
of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD)
visited Dounreay on Thursday 6th March during their two day visit to
Caithness. The group enjoyed a tour of the Dounreay site and a tour of
the Dounreay Visitor Centre, before heading back to their various
locations across Scotland. SEERAD are also represented on the Dounreay
Local Liaison Committee. Pictured with the group in the Visitor
Centre, explaining the challenges of dismantling and removing the old
Prototype Fast Reactor, is Colin Punler, Dounreay Communications Manager.
4 March 03
Visit From North Highland College
28
February 03
VALUE OF DECOMMISSIONING CONTRACTS INCREASES BY ALMOST 50 PER CENT
The value of work won by companies
at Dounreay has increased by almost 50 per cent since 1998-99 and is
expected to remain high for several years to come. This was stated by Mr
Robert Nicol, the site's head of finance and contracts, when he addressed
members of Caithness Business Club in Thurso. "During 2002-03 we are
letting approximately £95 million of work in contracts, compared to £61
million in 1998", he said. "It underlines the growth there has been in
opportunities to do business at Dounreay because of the site restoration
plan. Just over a third of this work is going to businesses in the
Highlands and Islands, and I have no doubt that companies based here have
the potential to increase that share in competition with firms from other
parts of the UK. Wherever we can, we want to assist Highlands and Islands
Enterprise make the most of these opportunities for the benefit of the
economy of the region."
25 February 03
Business
Opportunities At Dounreay
At a special seminar organised by Orkney Enterprise, companies and
organisations from the islands were invited to register an interest in
finding out if the massive Dounreay project could become an important
source of income in the future. It was stressed that many
non-specialist skills and supplies will be needed - everything from civil
engineering and construction work to day-to-day goods like the food
required for the 2,500-plus workforce at the Caithness site.
13 February 03
New Police Command Centre
 60
new construction jobs as £4million contract awarded to highland based J R
MacLeod Contractors.
24 January 03
Engineering Apprentices At UKAEA Excellent Experience
 UKAEA
Engineering Apprentices not only gain experience in their trade field
during their 4 years, but also spend a 3-month period during their 3rd
Year in a design office placement. Over the past 3 years RWE Nukem, who
provide a Design and Consultancy Service on site, have taken 5 UKAEA
apprentices and shown them the design processes and systems they use on a
day to day basis.
21 January 03
£16 MILLION FACILITY WILL ENABLE FOREIGN WASTE
TO BE RETURNED TO CUSTOMERS
The UK Atomic Energy Authority has applied for planning
permission to construct a new facility for the management of
intermediate-level radioactive waste (ILW) at Dounreay. The
proposed waste transfer facility is designed to increase the site's
capacity for storage of waste from the decommissioning programme
at Dounreay. It will also enable the long-term management of liquid
waste after it has been conditioned in cement. The new facility will
allow a small proportion of this cemented waste to be returned to foreign
customers from 2008 under the terms of historical reprocessing contracts.
50 New Jobs
Subject to planning and regulatory consent, the new facility is expected
to create 50 jobs during its two-year construction and a further five
when it comes into operation. It is expected to cost in the region of
£16 million to design and build............
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