Dounreay

British

/ ˌduːnˈreɪ /

noun

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

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The UK tested the technology at Dounreay, in the far north of the Highlands, and became a world leader, building the first ever nuclear power stations - with Chapel Cross in Dumfriesshire among the first wave - in 1959.

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It was one of two offshore wind projects in Scotland to be awarded a Contract for Difference, along with the smaller Pentland floating offshore wind farm off Dounreay.

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A contract has also been awarded for the much smaller Pentland floating offshore wind farm off Dounreay.

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A fragment of waste found near Dounreay in April was the most radioactive to be detected in the last three years, the Highland nuclear site's operator has said.

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Sand-sized particles of irradiated nuclear fuel got into Dounreay's drainage system in the 1960s and 1970s.

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