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Dounreay is Scotland’s largest decommissioning project, with a history of fast reactor research and development.

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NRS Dounreay has been awarded Gold status for skills and training for the fourth consecutive year by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.

The engineering construction industry values its members, who design, construct, maintain, renew and dismantle the UK’s strategically…

Spot, the robot "dog," recently assisted colleagues in Dounreay’s Fuel Cycle Area by reactivating a crucial building crane in a reprocessing plant.

The crane had been deactivated at the switchboard in 2023 due to concerns about the ageing asset. Safety restrictions prohibited human…

One of Britain’s most complex environmental restoration projects is taking on 23 new apprentices.

Fallon Campbell (second from left), a fourth-year electrical apprentice at Dounreay, was among apprentices and graduates from across the nuclear industry who joined executives and political…

A new snake-like inspection robot has been trialed at Dounreay to survey confined areas

A few years ago, the award-winning ‘Lyra’ robot had its debut in Dounreay’s redundant fuel cycle area laboratories, courtesy of a collaboration with the University of Manchester.  

Since then…