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What's happening in Danish Decommissioning?

On 27 February, Danish Decommissioning received a visit from the Danish Parliament. 12 politicians, members of the Health and Prevention Committee and the Environment Committee respectively, visited DD to hear about Denmark's radioactive waste. They were given a tour of the interim storage facilities for Denmark's radioactive waste.

Danish Decommissioning has had an eventful year, with our three major decommissioning projects making significant progress. Join us for a tour of 2014.

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.

It is late afternoon over Risø, and the shadows from the silver poplars have grown long. However, the security team at DD is staying put, even though the lights are being switched off one by one in the offices. There are always people on the Risø site, around the clock, all year round, where DD's guards go around checking the buildings and taking samples, among other things.

At next year's review meeting of the UN Joint Convention, a DD staff member sits at the critical table. Health physicist Haraldur Hannesson has been appointed to the panel, which will help evaluate, among other things, the US's handling of radioactive waste.

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