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Commercial reprocessing at Dounreay

01 January 1991

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Commercial reprocessing at Dounreay

Since the UK Government announced major reductions in funding for
Dounreay last year, the operators, the Atomic Energy Authority,
have turned from research work to commercial reprocessing -
joining Sellafield and Cap La Hague in France as Europe's only
commercial reprocessing plants.

Two new contracts have been signed with the West German company
KfK to reprocess spent fuel from the French fast breeder reactor,
Phoenix, and an experimental fuel mixture which has been
irradiated in the fast breeder reactor at Dounreay. (The only
other fast breeder reactor in Europe, Superphoenix in France,
has been closed since September after leakages of liquid sodium.)

Dounreay is now looking for new commercial work, particularly
manufacturing and reprocessing Materials Test Reactor (MTR) fuel.
Chief Executive Mr Owen Pugh said:"There are opportunities [for
more work] and we are going after them now." Mr Pugh said they
were negotiating for new contracts and he was "confident the
Dounreay plants will have a profitable long-term future."

NENIG Briefing no 39, April 1990

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