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What's happening at Danish Decommissioning?

It is the last day before the holiday – and a somewhat melancholic time for laundry assistants Jette Danielsen and Winnie Andersen. Danish Decommissioning is an organisation that will gradually decommission itself, and this also applies to the laundry facility. After the holiday, Jette Danielsen will be solely responsible for managing colleagues' workwear.

An ingenious, self-propelled lifting gantry has, over the past week, removed five partition walls from the so-called Hot Cells. This marked the commencement of the next phase in the complex project.

A significant part of the work involved in dismantling the old nuclear facilities is the packaging of radioactive waste into containers. Optimal utilization of space within each container is crucial, requiring both ingenuity and meticulous planning to complete this intricate task.

Over the past six months, a team of employees has been engaged in dismantling a storage block situated close to the old DR 3 reactor. The team must experiment to identify the most effective methods.

When Project Engineer Morten Dalby wakes up at 5 AM, he immediately grabs his mobile phone to remotely start Danish Decommissioning's very own ice machine. A few hours later, a large box of dry ice is ready on the Risø peninsula for the removal of environmentally hazardous paint.

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