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Dounreay

Near Thurso, Caithness

A giant golf-ball reactor on Scotland's north coast.

Dounreay was built in the 1950s to develop 'fast breeder' nuclear reactors. Its great steel sphere housed the Dounreay Fast Reactor, which first made electricity in 1962.

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When
1955 to present
Where
58.5800, -3.7500
Group
Secret bunkers & war sites

Visiting

Seen from the A836. Caithness Horizons in Thurso tells its story.

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