Douneray offers Chernobyl demolition advice…

Ahead of 25th anniversary of meltdown, workshop analyses demolition possibility.

An employee at the Dounreay nuclear power plant in the UK has offered guidance on the decommissioning of Chernobyl.

The 25th anniversary of an explosion in a reactor at the Ukrainian site will be marked on 26 April.

Jillian Bundy was one of four foreign speakers at a workshop held in Slavutych on training workers on the demolition of Chernobyl.

She said the work should be seen as a long-term opportunity to develop new expertise and the economy.

Operations at Dounreay in Caithness ended in 2004 and the entire site is being cleaned up and demolished at a cost of £2.6 billion. Radioactive particles from the plant are also being recovered from beaches and the seabed nearby.

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