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Pity poor Dungeness and Dounreay, doomed for hundreds of years.
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I am not one to bear a grudge, as my readers will know, but I think it worth recording that while my moustache spends the summer as nature intended, grazing in the Welland Valley – the finest pasture in England – Thurso's facial appendage is packed off to the Atom Plant at Dounreay, where it is bombarded with gamma rays or something equally beastly to make it grow to an unnatural size.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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A senior adviser to the Prime Minister told Labour officials at a secret meeting at the Scottish Executive headquarters that building a new nuclear power station at Dounreay would be the ideal way of undermining their Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues.
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The recent Dounreay "drain" incident must give us pause.
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A senior adviser to the Prime Minister told Labour officials at a secret meeting at the Scottish Executive headquarters that building a new nuclear power station at Dounreay would be the ideal way of undermining their Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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The main photo is of Dounreay nuclear power station, the inset is an artist's impression of the new North Wales office.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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It has always been national policy to build nuclear power stations in comparatively underpopulated areas like Dounreay, Windscale, erm Sellafield and Sizewell and on the coast, so asking this question is idiotic: there is never going to be a plant built on Hampstead Heath, or come to that, in Croydon.
Anyone But Ken Croydonian 2006
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It has always been national policy to build nuclear power stations in comparatively underpopulated areas like Dounreay, Windscale, erm Sellafield and Sizewell and on the coast, so asking this question is idiotic: there is never going to be a plant built on Hampstead Heath, or come to that, in Croydon.
Archive 2006-06-01 dizzy 2006
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In my case, in the cours eof my work I have visited the UK Prototype Fast Reactor PFR in Dounreay, Scotland many times.
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'No. The nearest nuclear station would be Dounreay.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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