Having completed my initial clerical and advanced clerical training with UKAEA at Risley I was moved to Finance & Accounts within Reactor Group. I then completed my accountancy qualification over the next 5 years. The training provided by UKAEA was simply the best. We are now seeing a return to work based training and apprenticeships in all disciplines. This is a move in the right direction.

Interesting absolutely no mention was made of the discarded nuclear fuel rods and other high and intermediate waste dumped their illegally, nor was the fire mentioned and conveniently neither was the high level waste washing up on the shore that was ejected from the shaft by the explosion. They must think people are really dumb or something...

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These were the plants 1203 and 1206. My father managed those plants reprocessing the spent fuel rods.

You know how Monty Burns is stereotyped as negligent and malicious? This is the sort of thing that gives rise to that.

Not one person said "Ya we dobber!!" Joking aside, I found this interesting.

most of it is gone , the British high nose bit the ground;

Dounreay was ahead of its time. Pioneering design and engineering work!

Dounrey! Dounrey! Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah! *to be sung to the Stingray theme*

Why is the narrator saying ‘liquor’ store ? @13:14, 13:19, 13:29 ?

No health safety on that job because they had common sense eh 🤔🤔

All for nothing , the UK nuclear fairy tale was a complete disaster , just to hug the Ami's .Sad.

My brother worked on this Assembly.

I saw the title "history of the shaft" and thought I'd have a look 👀. 😂😂😂😂

I'm sure my grandad worked there years ago with his dad and brothers in PFR, our DFR our did something in dounreay!

17:12 "speeded up"? Is it not "sped up"?

13:55 we all know, how well the coastline has been protected from radioactivity on the Cumbrian coast at Sellafield ☠️ Nevertheless, thank you for uploading this historical documentary.

Oh we are so fckng lucky ..... a sea discharge pipe. Good God !!!

Valuable footage, tribute to tremendous planning and design, management and sheer man-effort to create the thing. The workers survived by sheer wit and experience, a bit like those blokes building US skyscrapers ...

Look at that ... at 00:36 we see how a shaft is sunk, literally half a dozen men with pick axe and shovel ... bloody 'ell ... that is hard work! But seriously how dirty and unthinking to create the problem in the first place. Methinks ... eat NOTHING from the sea. Simple questons ie where did all the pumped water discharge to for all the years the pumping went on ... OMG !!

Well, you learn something new every day. Got a feeling the disaster tourist youtubers will be making videos on this subject pretty soon... looking at you Kyle Hill and Plainly Difficult.

Oops. Volatile gases overlooked. Rookie mistake!

We have small scale reactors on earth, called human brains.

Thank you to all workers, who help with all these dangerous decommissioning tasks

Now listen Bodie

sodium next to gallons of water,what suicide jockey came up with that lunatic plan? !

Good to hear morality over legality is an ethic they try to live by on site. Given the potential dire consequences of just conforming to legality it is always somewhat reassuring to hear such words uttered 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

This is an interesting channel but lacking the fine detail. I wish things were more thorough and long format video uploads. Thanks for the uploads that are here so far though.

Is this process and progress documented anywhere?

What constitutes low level classification? Where can I find more detailed information on these classifications please?

How much is left to be removed?

What is the supercompactor and what was it previously used for at Dounreay? Also which landfill sites are licensed for this type of waste and why does this waste need to go to a specially licenced landfill location? Thanks 😊

Basically what they meant to say here was this.. “the high grade Plutonium produced here can be used to make electricity but will not likely be used for such purposes. It is much more likely to be used for nuclear weapons”

If only decontaminating the surrounding environment were as easy to accomplish as decommissioning fixed infrastructure. Not that the decommissioning isn’t a huge challenge and achievement, just that it’s actually possible, whereas removing every hot particle from the area - particularly the marine environment - simply isn’t feasible. I’m certainly not a radiological alarmist, but the facility’s failure to contain some of the worst material imaginable was/is a tragedy. One can be certain that such “oversights” would’ve been far less likely had the facility been built closer to London, but we’re all aware of the “rationale” behind placing it as far away from that city as practicalities would permit.

Nice video.

This is very interesting, but imagine if they had just avoided dumping everything down the shaft in the first place. Even basic chemistry shows Na is explosive when it reacts with water. This is what gives the nuclear industry a bad name, no consideration for safe waste disposal, it seems the people at the time gave little thought to this.

Great video.

What is all the 'dust?'

I'm curious to what the radiation levels are inside the reactor.

Is that Cowley doing the voiceover? Making the description of an experimental reactor sound like a CI5 briefing - doesn’t get much scarier than that!

Hey, look! I glow!

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Great!!👏👏👏

Its a shame!

Why is this narrated as if the narrator just learned how construction works. Ridiculous. All day long the pouring went on, what, everybody works all day. Lazy Englishmen.

Another Brilliant video. I take it is too radioactive to put anyone in there. What happens to the liquid after pumped out?

Well Done. Enjoyed this video! Love videos like this. I know 1 person in that video too!

The SNP need a bloody lesson in reality and we need more nuclear power.

You should put out more content.

Are all those spots one the camera as it melts radioactivity?