Future Plans

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Dounreay Location

Performance Updates

Find out more about Dounreay's Performance, visit our Programme Performance Updates section.

See also

NDA Strategy Document

NDA Strategy Document

We are in the process of revising
the Strategy that was approved by
Government in 2006:

PDF Strategy (approved by Government 2006) (3Mb)

We will be launching our Draft Strategy II
for consultation in August 2010. 

Click here for more information on Draft Strategy II

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Future Plans

This section provides a brief description of the Dounreay site as outlined in the NDA's draft strategy.

The scope, schedule and cost of work needed to decommission the sites are reviewed annually by the NDA and its contractors during the Lifetime Plan (LTP) review process.


Site End State Assumption

2036:
- Interim end state – site passively safe; conditioned ILW and any remaining nuclear material in storage; LLW in disposal facility

- Areas of side will become available for other potential uses, with the possibility of releaseding clean      buildings earlier, depending on site licence issues

- Radiological and industrial brown field


Current Key Milestones

 Year

 Milestone

 2008 Shaft isolation – construction of an effective hydraulic barrier from water and protect against contamination spread.
 2012 Completion of new LLW facilities.
 2018 Shaft waste retrieval head-works – a facility that uses remote-handling equipment to remove waste for transfer to the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP).
 2018 ILW removed from shaft – all waste removed and transferred to the waste treatment plant (WTP).
 2036 Interim site end state achieved.