Cleaned-up Dounreay cells to be bulldozed
A COLLECTION of buildings on the edge of the Dounreay nuclear site is set to be demolished as part of the £2.9 billion decommissioning of the site.
Four "cells", three for uranium testing and one for plutonium, were built in the late 1950s and fitted with experimental miniature reactors. When they became redundant in the 1960s, the plutonium cell, one of the most hazardous parts of the Dounreay complex, was left to decay.
A clean-up began in 1999, and by 2002, parts of the building could be entered without respiratory equipment for the first time in 40 years. This year, the whole building was declared safe, with the last of the plutonium contamination cleared up, eight years after the operation began.
The bulldozers are due to move in next month to demolish the cell.
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