Dounreay
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Dounreay is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland. It is on the A836 road nine miles west of Thurso.
View of site in 2006, with DFR sphere at centre
Aerial view ~1979. PFR in centre ground, DFR 'sphere' top right
Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment, formerly HMS Vulcan, is a UK Ministry of Defence establishment in Scotland, operated by Rolls-Royce Submarines.
Dounreay
…They were the Nuclear Power Development Establishment (NPDE), now known as NRS Dounreay, for the development of civil fast breeder reactors, and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility. Both have ended operations and are being decommissioned. The two establishments have been a major element…
Entrance road to Vulcan NRTE