A major milestone has been reached on the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear power complex site in Caithness.

A robot has demolished the final internal structure of the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) support building complex. The work means the building can now be levelled.

Project Manager Bill Lambie said: "This marks the end of a lengthy campaign to decommission the DMTR complex and allows us to demolish the support building.

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"It is a significant achievement, made possible through the skills, ingenuity and hard work of the engineers, supervisors and decommissioning operatives who are part of the project team, and also by working closely with other support functions."

Mark Raffle, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Programme Manager, said: "The DMTR complex is a large and significant facility which served a number of vital roles in the operation of the site, even after DMTR ceased operation. 

"Its imminent demolition will be an important and very visible step in the clearance of the site and a clear demonstration of the progress being made."

(LM/CD)