Sentences with phrase «fast reactor programme»
Britain's fast reactor programme has been running for nearly 40 years at a total cost of over # 4 billion.
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The European fast reactor programme — led by Britain, France and Germany — had hoped to carry out important research at the fast reactor research centre at Dounreay in Scotland, which is operated by AEA Technology.
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But a spokesman for Dounreay, Ian Shepherd, stresses that comprehensive monitoring of the site started last autumn as part of a multimillion pound programme to decommission two fast reactors and their associated plants.
The radioactive material was reprocessed by the French company Cogema in La Hague and will be used in Japan's fast - breeder nuclear reactor programme.
Colin Gregory, director of the fast reactor research programme at Dounreay, says that the EFR will inevitably take longer to construct and cost more without more time for research at Dounreay.