Residents closest to Dounreay and Vulcan are for the first time to be excluded from the emergency planning zone around the redundant nuclear sites. It is being shrunk to reflect the perceived reduction in risk to the public presented by the adjoining plants. The zone would be the focus of the response to what is considered a worst-case scenario involving a radiation release. Up until the plug was pulled on Dounreay’s fast reactor programme in the mid-1990s, its zone extended … read more »
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