23 Nov Risø goes to museum

The autumn air was filled with a certain sadness as the DR 3 model was carried outside. It was one of the Risø objects that the Steno Museum collected on Friday to preserve them for posterity.

A Even before the Danish De commissioning was established, an agreement was reached with the Museum of Science History in Aarhus to document and preserve the most important parts of Risø Nuclear Station. After a visit in December 2002, the Steno Museum describes in a letter the objects they have immediately found interesting. At the top of this list is a model of Danish Reactor 3.

The model, which is mainly made of wood, has been in the concourse for years in the lobby of the reactor building. It, together with a selection of planks, has been used to explain to visitors about the reactor's processes. However, with the ongoing decommissioning of the reactor, the time had gradually become ripe to take the model off.

The Steno Museum has previously, years ago, picked up a number of important objects, including the control desk from Danish Reactor 1, which was decommissioned in 2004-6. Now was the time for the next pickup. In addition to the reactor model, when the box truck departed for Aarhus on Friday, it also contained two brand new drums with released waste and unused pipes for fuel elements and experiments.

The objects will be part of a new exhibition, which the Steno Museum will open in spring 2018, about the curious man. And when even more of Risø's historic facilities have broken down, the museum will once again come by with a box truck.