Nuvia (UK) announced on 29 August that it has secured a multi-million-pound contract for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) to design, procure, install and commission plant and equipment to remove the residual NaK (Sodium-Potassium) remaining in the Dounreay Fast Reactor’s (DFR) complex piping network. DFR was built during the 1950s at a time when there was a worldwide shortage of uranium for electricity generation and became the world’s first fast reactor to provide electricity to a national grid.

• Uranium
• Dounreay
• Sodium
• Sodium hydroxide

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Thursday, 30 August 2018

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuvia-wins-contract-to-remove-coolant-from-dounreay-fast-reactor-6728387

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