Rope access experts have abseiled down a 20m-high rock wall around Dounreay’s low-level radioactive waste vaults to carry out rock face maintenance and stabilisation work.
Dounreay operates facilities for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste adjacent to the nuclear licensed site. The shallow engineered concrete vaults constructed below the ground contain much of the radioactive waste produced during the operational life of the site and will be produced by the site’s decommissioning and remediation programme.
Contractor CAN Geotechnical and geotechnical designer Golder Associates (UK) worked with Dounreay to carry out the rock face stabilisation work. The work consists of scaling loose rock, repairing existing rock netting systems, and installing additional rock bolts, netting and catch fences to protect against falling rock from the faces.
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