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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Philip J. Thomas, Tim Boorman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 2 | August 1989 | Pages 111-119
Technical Paper | Decontamination and Decommissioning / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34261
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The planning and the progress to date of the United Kingdom’s first full-scale decommissioning project, which is dismantling the Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor to stage 3 (the “greenfield” site concept), are described. The plant and the facilities that are being constructed to dismantle it are described. Methods used to separate and pack for disposal nonradioactive, low-level, and intermediate-level radioactive waste are summarized.