Staff at Sellafield’s Magnox Reprocessing Plant have safely reprocessed the final box of spent fuel, marking the completion of a 10-year programme

Nuvia and its partner Graham Construction will provide advanced transition works at the 65-metre deep shaft and silo at the Dounreay nuclear site

That’s the suggestion made in a new report from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which forecasts the land at the 148-acre site will be completely ‘dedesignated’ or reused in 313 years

The trial confirmed recycling opportunities could exist for other waste metal items

It will be down-blended to be used as fuel in civil nuclear reactors

The firm will work for at least seven years to close down the old nuclear reactors at the Scottish site

The project is expected to create up to 50 new jobs and support the oil and gas and renewables industry

The Caithness plant is Scotland’s largest nuclear decommissioning project

Cavendish Nuclear has been chosen to develop the Design and Engineering Services Framework

The liquid is being turned into a solid by mixing it with cement, ash and lime, with more than 30 drums to be initially filled with the waste