Dounreay

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The site of Scotland's first nuclear power station. It first came on stream in 1954 and up until 1994 was suppling electricity using nuclear power. It is now going through a structured decommissioning. Its distinctive dome reactor building came to signify the modern, clean image of nuclear power of the 1950's/60's and 1970's for a whole generation of Scots.