Demolition doesn’t get more challenging than this.
In a week in which it was announced that demolition workers had been exposed to radioactive particles while dismantling a plutonium processing plant in the US, this video from the Dounreay nuclear power plant in Scotland provides a fascinating insight into the complexity of this kind of work.
Radioactive facilities, including a cooling pond, storage compound and examination cells assisted Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) during its operational life. All have now been safely and painstakingly stripped out at part of a 10-year, £15 million project, culminating in the support building itself being removed from the landscape.
You can read more about the project here.
