RWMAC's Advice to Ministers on the Restoration of the UKAEA Dounreay Nuclear Site

This report by the independent Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) reviews the draft strategic plan for the environmental restoration of the Dounreay nuclear site (which is expected to take 50-60 years to complete), setting the proposed programme in its wider policy, regulatory and societal context.

Contents

Foreword

Executive summary

1. Introduction

2. The form of this study and report

3. Progress to date with decommissioning of the Dounreay site

4. General observations on the DSRP

5. Decommissioning

6. Radioactive waste management

7. Nuclear fuels

8. Contaminated land remediation

9. The Dounreay particles

References

Annex A: RWMAC Dounreay Working Group

Annex B: A short history of the Dounreay site

Annex C: Summary of the Dounreay Site Restoration Plan

Annex D: Terms of reference and membership of RWMAC

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