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What's happening in Danish Decommissioning?

It's the last day before the holidays - and a somewhat sad time for laundry assistants Jette Danielsen and Winnie Andersen. Danish Decommissioning is a organisation that must gradually close itself down, and that goes for the laundry too. After the holidays, Jette Danielsen will be left alone to sort out her colleagues' work clothes.

An ingenious, self-propelled lifting frame has removed five partitions from the so-called Hot Cells in the past week. It was the start of the next phase of the complicated project.

A major part of the work to dismantle the old nuclear facilities is the packaging of radioactive waste in containers. The space in each container must be used to the best of its ability, and it takes both ingenuity and careful planning to get this puzzle to a click.

At the waste treatment plant, a violent hum that required earplugs has been replaced by a gentler buzz. And a chapter in Risø's history has just been closed.

For the past six months, a group of workers has been demolishing a storage block that stands close to the old DR 3 reactor. The team has to test its mettle to find the most effective methods.

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