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Dounreay
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Dounreay [duːnˈreɪ]
n
(Placename) 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 Dounreay Fast Reactor was the most-advanced nuclear reactor in the world.
Dream that ran out of energy; DOUNREAY: THE ATOMIC DREAM FRIDAY, ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The site was opened in 1955 and three reactors were built over the next 20 years the Dounreay Fast Reactor, Prototype Fast Reactor and Dounreay Materials Test Reactor.
DOUNRATS; Rodents fed radioactive material for pounds 5 bn clean-up ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
There they were, cavorting on a grey morning in the blustery wind, with the dome of the original Dounreay Fast Reactor looming like some science-fiction joke behind them.
Dome sweet dome... if you're a Teletubby by Bell, Ian / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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