{"id":25919,"date":"2020-04-10T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25919"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:07:16","slug":"submarine-reactor-test-site-at-dounreay-to-be-demolished-by-2030s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25919","title":{"rendered":"Submarine reactor test site at Dounreay to be demolished\u2026 by 2030s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25920\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbc_scotland_100420-253x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/>A facility used for testing nuclear submarine reactors in Dounreay, Scotland is to be demolished by the 2030s.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE) was built in 1957 at Dounreay near Thurso.<\/p>\n<p>The site is next to, but operated separately from, the civilian experimental nuclear power complex at Dounreay.<\/p>\n<p>The civilian nuclear power plant is already in the process of being demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan NRTE has two reactors. The first was operational from 1965 to 1987 and the second was shut down in 2015.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26527514\">Q&amp;A: What and where is Vulcan?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The facility was used for testing new designs of nuclear submarine pressurised water reactors (PWR).<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the UK government said new technology meant testing would no longer need to be done at Vulcan.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Defence (MoD) said options for decommissioning Vulcan were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD said: &#8220;The test reactor at Vulcan shut down for the last time in 2015 and work is ongoing to demolish the whole site in a safe, secure and environmentally compliant way by the 2030s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-51927359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A facility used for testing nuclear submarine reactors in Dounreay, Scotland is to be demolished by the 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25921,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions\/25921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}