Catalogue description Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Dounreay Sites Restoration Ltd (DSRL)

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Reference: NDA 2
Title: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Dounreay Sites Restoration Ltd (DSRL)
Description:

This series contains files and reports relating to the development, operation and final decommissioning of the Fast Breeder Reactor programme. Many pieces contain photographs, diagrams, drawings or graphs.
Date: 2005-
Related material:

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Northern Groups: Dounreay, registered files and reports: AB 93
Copies held at:

NDA Archive, Wick (Nucleus)
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, 2004-
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Selection and destruction information: Operational Selection Policy 57: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority – site records 1940 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The decision to construct a large scale experimental fast breeder reactor was announced by the Minister of Works, Sir David Eccles, in 1954. The Dounreay site was opened in 1955 and three reactors were built over the next 20 years: the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR), Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) and the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR). The reactors were closed down in 1994 and are being decommissioned. Prior to 1 April 2008, DSRL was managed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).

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