Aug 24 Intermediate Sub-inventory Sub-report
COWI A/S has now delivered the report "Safety, economics and operation for a Danish interim storage solution for radioactive waste".
COWI A/S has now delivered the report "Safety, economics and operation for a Danish interim storage solution for radioactive waste".
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.
Who takes Denmark's radioactive garbage? This question is put to Roskilde Municipality in a debate at the People's Meeting - and DD helps with facts.
At the waste treatment plant, a violent hum that required earplugs has been replaced by a gentler buzz.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.
Read about the initiatives and results DD in 2015 in relation to both the physical and psychological work environment.
The two major decommissioning projects - Danish Reactor 3 and the Hot Cell plant - are well under way.
When project engineer Morten Dalby opens his eyes at 5am, he immediately grabs his mobile to remotely start the Danish De commissioning's very own ice machine. A few hours later, a large box of dry ice is ready on the Risø Peninsula to clean environmentally hazardous paint.