Almost £20 million funding was invested to help NRS communities grow and thrive in 2024/25. NRS has supported 149 projects to bring positive social change to benefit people living in communities across the UK – from Caithness to the tip of North Wales, down to the Bristol and English Channels.…
Nuclear Restoration Services
Nuclear Restoration Services is the site licence company responsible for the clean-up and demolition of Britain’s former centre of fast reactor research and development. Nuclear Restoration Services is a subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). It is funded by the NDA to deliver the site closure programme.
The experimental nature of many of its redundant facilities means the clean-up and demolition requires innovation as well as great care. The intention is to decommission Dounreay and leave it in a safe condition for future generations. The skills and enterprise it fosters are giving Scottish companies a platform to compete in the global decommissioning market.
Nuclear Restoration Services News
NRS Dounreay has been awarded Gold status for skills and training for the fourth consecutive year by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.
The engineering construction industry values its members, who design, construct, maintain, renew and dismantle the UK’s strategically…
Spot, the robot "dog," recently assisted colleagues in Dounreay’s Fuel Cycle Area by reactivating a crucial building crane in a reprocessing plant.
The crane had been deactivated at the switchboard in 2023 due to concerns about the ageing asset. Safety restrictions prohibited human…
Keely Salter, a Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) apprentice, has been named the UK’s nuclear skills apprentice of the year 2025.
Craig Boothy from Westinghouse and host Colin Murray present Keely Salter with her overall apprentice of the year award
A plant technician at Oldbury…
Applications are now open for the 2025 apprenticeship scheme at Nuclear Restoration Services sites across the UK.
Apprenticeships are available to anyone aged 18 or over as level 2 health physics monitors, level 3 mechanical and electrical engineering technicians or level 6 nuclear…
Nuclear Restoration Services has formally submitted applications to regulators as it prepares to take responsibility for the Hunterston B site in Scotland.
Nuclear Restoration Services has formally submitted applications to regulators as it prepares to take responsibility for the…
South Dorset MP Lloyd Hatton has visited the Winfrith Site to see how a cutting-edge robotic laser is taking apart the site’s Dragon reactor core.
MP Lloyd Hatton commented: “It was a privilege to visit the Winfrith site and witness first-hand the remarkable work being done to decommission…
One of Britain’s most complex environmental restoration projects is taking on 23 new apprentices.
Fallon Campbell (second from left), a fourth-year electrical apprentice at Dounreay, was among apprentices and graduates from across the nuclear industry who joined executives and political…
Over 700kg of explosives have been used in the first stage demolition of four gigantic concrete plinths as part of work to decommission the turbine hall.
This significant achievement sets a new record for the largest use of explosives on a nuclear site for conventional demolition purposes…
A new snake-like inspection robot has been trialed at Dounreay to survey confined areas
A few years ago, the award-winning ‘Lyra’ robot had its debut in Dounreay’s redundant fuel cycle area laboratories, courtesy of a collaboration with the University of Manchester.
Since then…
Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) has been given planning consent to demolish the turbine hall and electrical annexe at Sizewell A site.
Sizewell A site director, Alan Walker, commented: “This is fantastic news. I’d like to thank everyone involved in helping to deliver our mission to…
During the last decade, NRS has invested over £10 million socio-economic funding into more than 1,400 community driven projects to create sustainable growth.
Our work with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has helped community partners to turn their great ideas into reality and…
Recruiting to shape a greener and more sustainable future.
A world leader in its field, Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) is responsible for decommissioning the first generation nuclear and research sites across the UK, ensuring all our futures are safe, secure, and sustainable.
We…