Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Forss is a few miles from Thurso
Telephone
(+44) 01925 802 479
Postal Address
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Freswick House
Forss Business & Technology Park
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 7UZ
Contact
John Farquhar
News for Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
19/3/2021
Consolidation Of Spent Fuel And Nuclear Materials - Dounreay And Other Sites
Statement issue18 March 2021 by NDA, Dounreay and Sellafield. In 2013 we concluded the development of our strategy to remove unirradiated nuclear material from Dounreay and consolidate it at Sellafield.
5/3/2021
Design Contract Awarded For Dounreay Shaft And Silo Work
Dounreay has awarded an important waste clean-up contract to Jacobs as the site plans for the future of its deepest historic radioactive waste store. Jacobs and its supporting partners have been awarded a 6-year contract to provide a design management team to produce a fully integrated design for the shaft and silo project.
22/2/2021
NDA Innovation Competition Winners Have Been Announced - £3.9 Million
14 successful companies have been awarded contracts to come up with innovative approaches to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste. The ‘Sort and Seg' innovation competition, worth £3.9 million in total, was launched in July 2020.
28/1/2021
Odds Are On The Monte Carlo System - Dounreay
Dounreay features in a new leaflet from the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency showing recent research, development and innovation. See the leaflet link at the bottom of this page to read about some of the other investments by the NDA.
20/1/2021
Nuclear Decommissioning Agency Update - New Transport and Waste Divisions
Issued by David Peattie, Group CEO and Accounting Officer, NDA. I am pleased to be able to share with you some significant developments within the NDA around our transport and waste businesses, further underlining our One NDA approach to working more collaboratively and efficiently to clean up the UK's earliest civil nuclear sites.
20/1/2021
£12m UK-Japan Robotics Deal For Fusion Energy And Nuclear Decommissioning Research
UK-Japan relationship in nuclear science boosted by robotics and automation. Britain and Japan have signed a research and technology deployment collaboration to help automate nuclear decommissioning and aspects of fusion energy production.
19/1/2021
Multi-million Design Contract Secured For Dounreay Waste Repackaging Facility
The Decommissioning Services Framework (DDF) Alliance, led by Cavendish Nuclear and supported by KDC Contractors (Veolia) and BAM Nuttall (BAM), has been successfully awarded a contract for the design of a new waste repackaging facility at the Dounreay nuclear site. The programme of work is expected to run until early 2022 and forms part of Dounreay Site Restoration Limited's (DSRL's) Decommissioning Services Framework.
16/1/2021
Mark Rouse appointed as Managing Director of Dounreay
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) has announced the appointment of Mark Rouse as its Managing Director. Mark took up the position of Managing Director in March 2020 but will now move from the current parent body organisation to Dounreay Site Restoration Limited to continue leading the business when it becomes an NDA subsidiary on 1 April 2021.
30/12/2020
Significant Milestone Reached With Concrete 'mega Pour'
Work on Dounreay's newest radioactive waste store went up a storey last week, with the completion of a ‘mega' concrete pour. The construction project was one of the first to re-start work on 22 June, following the easing of lock down restrictions.
6/11/2020
The12-week public consultation on the NDA's Draft Strategy is about to close
The public consultation on the NDA's Draft Strategy 4 closes at 5pm on Sunday 8th November 2020. Because of the current Government guidance around social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have created a virtual consultation exhibition to give members of the public a chance to delve into the key themes, before making a response.
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