Dounreay meets target for liquid hazard reduction
皇冠体育app last of the higher activity liquid waste produced during Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) fuel reprocessing has been made safe for future generations.
It is an important milestone in the immobilisation of the historic liquid waste, known as raffinate, created from reprocessing undertaken during the operation of Dounreay鈥檚 three reactors.
皇冠体育app achievement comes just days after Dounreay announced that all of the reactor鈥檚 liquid metal coolant had been destroyed.
Dounreay鈥檚 Waste Director, Bruce Covert, welcomed the news: 鈥淓ncapsulation of 232 cubic metres of DFR raffinate is a significant achievement for the whole site, with the material grouted and suitable for long term storage in 875 drums.
鈥淭his is a good example of everyone at Dounreay working together as one team to safely deliver one programme, ensuring the project remained on schedule with minimal interruptions.鈥�
Nigel Lowe, NDA Head of Programme for Dounreay and Magnox, said: 鈥淭his is a great milestone in a long line of Dounreay milestones. 皇冠体育app team should be very proud of this achievement.鈥�
Batches of liquor were remotely transferred from underground tanks to a cementation plant. Here it was neutralised and mixed with cement powder inside 500-litre drums in a remote handling facility, making it passively safe for long-term storage or disposal.
皇冠体育app cementation plant will now undergo some engineering modifications and enhancements before the workforce begin to immobilise the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) raffinate.