Dounreay (UK) Shaft and Silo Decommissioning - Remote Handling in an Extreme and Uncertain Environment - 18420

Conference · Sun Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:22977717

Belcher, Chris; Sharpe, Mark ^[1]

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1. Veolia Nuclear Solutions (United Kingdom)

DSRL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cavendish Dounreay Partnership Ltd, a consortium of Cavendish Nuclear, CH2M and AECOM. It is funded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to deliver the site closure programme. Today, Dounreay is a site of construction, demolition and waste management, all of it designed to return the site to an interim end state. Dounreay is recognised as the most complex nuclear site closure project in Europe. The experimental nature of many of the sites redundant facilities means the clean-up and demolition requires innovation as well as great care. It is driving innovation in the approach to remote handling and robotics in the highly complex, hazardous and uncertain environment, all within tight financial constraints by UK Government. Veolia Nuclear Solutions (VNS) is instrumental in delivery of the overall solutions for the shaft and silo decommissioning project working with other members of industry and directly for DSRL to deliver the overall concept design for waste treatment as well as specialised equipment to recover highly hazardous and uncertain materials in this unique project. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22977717
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--20-WM-18420
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AUTOMATION
CONSTRUCTION
CONTAMINATION
DECOMMISSIONING
DECONTAMINATION
DEMOLITION
DESIGN
DFR REACTOR
IMPLEMENTATION
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOTE HANDLING
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
ROBOTS
UNITED KINGDOM ORGANIZATIONS
WASTE PROCESSING