The same year the original fast reactor was closed and in 1994 the
prototype fast reactor shut, leaving Dounreay carrying out only decommissioning
NHS Highland confirmed a male sub- contractor working at Dounreay's
prototype fast reactor was admitted to Caithness General Hospital in Wick, before being transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with "probable meningitis".
The site was opened in 1955 and three reactors were built over the next 20 years the Dounreay Fast Reactor,
Prototype Fast Reactor and Dounreay Materials Test Reactor.
In particular, treatment will concentrate on the UKAEA's own sodium from its
prototype fast reactor. The installation has approval from HM Nuclear Installation Inspectorate to proceed with inactive commissioning.
The fish were found as the workmen tore down a pumping house at Dounreay's defunct
prototype fast reactor.
A PURPOSE-BUILT drilling probe designed and tested by Dounreay's engineers is helping to decommission the site's
prototype fast reactor.
Now 100 staff at the Caithness plant's
prototype fast reactor have been switched to other duties.
Around 2,000 staff - in line with the number of workers already employed in decommissioning work - would continue to work at Dounreay for at least the first 20 years of the plan, a spokesman said, keeping much-needed jobs in one of Scotland's most depressed areas.--UKAEA's original strategy was to reprocess the fuel from Dounreay's
Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR), which was shut down in 1994.
Dr Nelson accepted yesterday that too many highly-skilled scientists and engineers had been allowed to take "golden handshake" early retirements in the early 1990s in the wake of the closure of Dounreay's main
Prototype Fast Reactor in 1984.
He provides a detailed overview of the inner workings of the Dounreay Fast Reactor and
Prototype Fast Reactor, and there's an interesting chapter on the building of Dounreay's famous "golf ball" containment dome, which is vividly illustrated by photographs of stages of construction.