Former council convener John Young has been looking back to the coming of atomic power to Caithness 70 years ago and how it brought “a great deal of benefit” to the county. He remembers how sites at Golspie and in the Staxigoe area were considered before Dounreay was chosen as the location for the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s centre of fast reactor research and development, with construction work starting in 1955. Mr Young (91) devoted 38 years to local government … read more »
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