THE team tasked with decommissioning the nuclear reactor at Dounreay have come up with a simple, sticky solution when they needed to take samples from its core – Blu-Tack. Workers needed to take samples of metal from holes drilled into the base of the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR). They opted for a simple solution – attaching some Blu-Tack to the end of a long flexible rod, and inserting it nearly 10 metres into the reactor core – saving the cost of developing a specialist tool for the job.
Scotsman 22nd May 2016 read more »