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SKYLINE CHANGES AGAIN AS BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED
13 November 03
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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. Both buildings have been cleared to make way for new
plants needed to retrieve and manage waste from the shaft and silo.
Construction of D8542 was completed in 1962 with the work carried
out by the Aberdeen construction firm, Alexander Hall & Son (Builders)
Ltd. Its purpose was to provide workshop and laboratory facilities in
support of the fast reactor development programme, and to provide office
facilities for its engineering staff.
 When
the Dounreay Fast Reactor closed, the building was put to a number of
other uses, including storage of the site archives. Latterly, it housed
the Project Services Department and its main workshop stored the cores
drilled from around Dounreay as part of the site's geological
investigations. All stone, brick and concrete rubble from the
demolitions will be removed and used as in-fill for the void left behind
following the demolition of the DFR seawater pump-house. |