Performance Updates
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NDA Strategy Document
After extensive consultation with our stakeholders, Government approved our Strategy published on 30 March 2006
NDA Strategy (pdf)
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This section provides a brief description of the Dounreay site as outlined in the NDA's draft strategy.
The scope, schedule and cost of work needed to decommission the sites are reviewed annually by the NDA and its contractors during the Lifetime Plan (LTP) review process.
Site End State Assumption
| 2036: - Areas of side will become available for other potential uses, with the possibility of releaseding clean buildings earlier, depending on site licence issues - Radiological and industrial brown field |
Current Key Milestones
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Shaft isolation – construction of an effective hydraulic barrier from water and protect against contamination spread. |
| 2012 | Completion of new LLW facilities. |
| 2018 | Shaft waste retrieval head-works – a facility that uses remote-handling equipment to remove waste for transfer to the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP). |
| 2018 | ILW removed from shaft – all waste removed and transferred to the waste treatment plant (WTP). |
| 2036 | Interim site end state achieved. |