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Minister sees Dounreay decommissioning first hand

Dounreay welcomed Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism to see the world leading decommissioning work taking place at the site.

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He also met with Andrew Wettern, business development director for Cavendish Nuclear, who was accompanying Hidehiro Segawa of Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy on his knowledge sharing and fact finding visit to the site.

Mr Ewing was given a tour of the Dounreay site and presentations about the site’s innovative decommissioning projects and how DSRL aims to become the benchmark in Europe for the successful clean-up and demolition of Britain’s former centre of fast reactor research and development.

He met with Dounreay trade union representatives before leaving for other engagements in the county.

Published 2 February 2014