They have raised the nuclear submarine Kursk from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean and uprighted a toppled 80-ton crane at the Lindø shipyard after the 1999 hurricane. Now, the Dutch company Mammoet, with its powerful cranes, is tasked with extracting a massive metal plug from Risø's largest research reactor.
The annual report contains an account of DD's activities in 2013 and reports on the results achieved in relation to the performance contract.
Danish Decommissioning is dismantling experimental reactors and other nuclear installations on Risø. Part of our task is to deal with radioactive waste, and a small part of the total is "special waste".
In 2013, DD achieved a significant milestone towards removing and packaging the internal components of Denmark's largest research reactor, DR3. We plan to lift the 22-ton steel plug on the reactor vessel in spring 2014.
Danish Decommissioning has been granted DKK 1.1 million to prepare a decision basis for the Danish Parliament regarding the establishment of a Danish interim storage facility for low and intermediate-level waste. This will be done in collaboration with GEUS and the Danish Institute for Radiation Protection (SIS).
Follow the progress of decommissioning Denmark's largest research reactor DR3 from the former Risø Research Centre. Our task is to decontaminate the former research area on the Risø peninsula to "green field" – meaning to remove radioactivity and chemicals so that the area can subsequently be used without restrictions. The DR3 reactor is one of these projects.
Danish Decommissioning collaborated with Jan Sjöholm from 'Extrem Borr & Sågteknik AB' in Sweden when the storage facility holes from the top plate of DR3 needed to be removed.
Many years of teaching in health physics have resulted in a book on the subject.
On January 24, 2013, the Finance Committee approved parliamentary document no. 57, in which the Ministry of Health requested DKK 3 million from unspent funds under Section 19.51.03 for Danish Decommissioning to finance expenses related to the characterization and conditioning of radioactive waste.
GEUS has now submitted the results of the area studies conducted in five municipalities, with the aim of identifying the most suitable location for the storage of radioactive waste.