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Dounreay Uses Household Putty to Save on Decommissioning

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Decommissioning crews at Scotland’s shuttered Dounreay nuclear facility are using a household putty solution to gather metal samples from the base of the site’s Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR).
In a press release Monday, organizers described how they forewent…

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