Dounreay

/ ˌduːnˈreɪ /

noun

1. the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel re-processing plant has also operated at the site

Example Sentences

It's already responsible for more than a dozen UK sites including Hunterston A, which closed in 1990, alongside Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland.

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If they were stopped by police, they were to tell officers they were a special delivery crew transferring radioactive material from the Dounreay nuclear power plant, near Thurso, for disposal at another site.

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Meanwhile the Dounreay nuclear complex - about 30 miles away - has been the mainstay of local employment in Caithness for decades.

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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will contribute £3m as part of its efforts to create job opportunities to replace those at the Dounreay nuclear complex, near Thurso, which is being decommissioned.

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Her late father moved from England to work at Dounreay 60 years ago and he loved the area so much that he never left.

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