DISMANTLING THE WINDSCALE ADVANCED GAS COOLED REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL AND INSULATION - DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

摘要

Progress on Project WAGR-Decommissioning the Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactorhas reached a major milestone with the letting of the contract for the provision of tooling andmethodologies to enable the Reactor Pressure Vessel and Insulation (PV&I) to be dismantled.This paper describes the design and development phase of the contract, explaining briefly thepreferred methodology and detailing first tests performed to check the feasibility and theefficiency of the chosen dismantling processes, before undertaking the design.