The team in charge of dismantling research reactor Dr 3 should not only concentrate on breaking down the reactor block itself, but also take care of all the elements that have been included in the trials. A basin plays an important role here.
Sometimes you have to build up to break down. In any case, this is the case with research reactor DR 3.
DD has purchased a Brokk demolition robot, and these days it can be seen at the Entreprenør- og Håndværksmesse 2015 in Messecenter Herning.
Preparations for the next major decommissioning project are underway.
After more than a year of grinding and disassembly work, DD's craftsmen now yanked out of the Fuel fabrication plant.
The nearly three-metre-wide metal ring, which sat on the top of the reactor tank in DR3, has been pulled up. Like the promise earlier this year, today's operation was conducted with high professional expertise from Dutch Mammoet and custom-made equipment from Aalborg company Bladt Industries.
Concrete dust, grinders and full suits. Much of the time looks like decommissioning quite a lot of time. The powder room where Risø handled uranium for fuel rods has been thoroughly sanded down on all surfaces.
In May 2014, Danish Decommissioning carried out a major operation to lift a highly radioactive metal plug from Denmark's largest research reactor.
In May 2014, Danish Decommissioning carried out a major operation: lifting the 22-tonne metal plug from Denmark's largest research reactor DR3. The actual lifting of the plug took an hour, and the operation can be seen in timelapse here.
Success: the massive metal plug that closed Denmark's biggest research reactor DR3 has been pulled open and replaced with a lid. Due to heavy radiation down from the reactor tank, the historic operation has been planned in detail over the past years. DD praises the cooperation with Mammoet and Bladt Industries.