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.
In May 2014, Danish Decommissioning carried out a major operation to lift a highly radioactive metal plug from Denmark's largest research reactor.
One of the Danish Commissioning Health physicists contributes with experience in dismantling reactor DR2.
The next three Thursdays in July, you can take a tour of the Risø site and get an impression of the former research centre. The tours will take place regardless of the weather on the following dates: 3 July, 10 July and 17 July. Registration is required.
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.
Come to the Open House at Danish Decommissioning and learn about our unique environmental mission at Risø: Friday 13 June at 15-18.
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.
DD is well advanced in the clean-up and release of the facility where Risø produced fuel for the experimental reactors. Come on a tour of the building and read about the task of removing radioactive contamination from floors, walls and drains.