12 Mar Fire in Operational Facility Last Week
On the morning of Tuesday, March 3rd, a fire occurred in Building 211, within the cell where the bitumen facility is located.
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11 Mar Interim Storage Facility Solution to be Investigated
The political parties have today decided that we should proceed with the possibility of setting up an intermediate storage facility.
06 Mar Work on the Fuel fabrication plant completed
After more than a year of grinding and dismantling work, DD's craftsmen have now moved out of the Fuel fabrication plant.
05 Mar Dialogue Meeting Prior to Conference on Radioactive Waste
Today, DR P4 Bornholm reports that Danish Decommissioning will not discuss technical aspects of nuclear waste publicly. For the record, we must point out that this is incorrect.
02 Mar Members of Parliament visited DD
On February 27, Danish Decommissioning received a visit from the Danish Parliament. Twelve politicians, members of the Health and Prevention Committee and the Environment Committee respectively, visited DD to learn about Denmark's radioactive waste. They were given a tour of the interim storage facilities for Denmark's radioactive waste.
02 Mar Basis for decision-making for intermediate storage facility
As a follow-up to the November 2012 agreement between the Minister for Health and Prevention and the political parties regarding the assessment of the interim storage facility option, a decision basis has been prepared.
Jan 14 2014 in Review
Danish Decommissioning has had an eventful year, and our three major decommissioning projects have advanced significantly. Join us for a review of 2014.
14 Oct Another reactor lift completed
The nearly three-meter-wide metal ring, which was located around the top of the DR3 reactor tank, has been successfully lifted out. Similar to the lift performed earlier this year, today's operation was executed with high professional expertise from the Dutch company Mammoet and custom-fabricated equipment from the Aalborg-based company Bladt Industries.
17 Sep Extensive cleanup of the powder room
Concrete dust, grinding machines, and full-body suits. Much of the time, decommissioning resembles a rather ordinary, yet intensive, renovation. The powder room, where Risø processed uranium for fuel rods, has been thoroughly ground down on all surfaces.
Aug 19 The Health Assistant's Evening Routine
It is late afternoon over Risø, and the shadows from the silver poplars have lengthened. However, DD's security personnel remain on duty, even as the lights in the offices are switched off one by one. Personnel are always present at the Risø site, around the clock, year-round, where DD's guards, among other duties, patrol and inspect the buildings and collect samples.