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Behind the scenes at Dounreay

A new film is offering a unique insight to the work going on to take apart one of the most complex nuclear sites in Europe.

Ariel view of Dounreay

皇冠体育app video, produced by local filmmaker Jill Innes, goes behind the scenes at Dounreay, which was once the UK鈥檚 centre of fast reactor research.

David Lowe, Deputy Managing Director, said:

鈥淲e wanted to showcase the full range of roles, as well as plants, at Dounreay. It is a real team effort to decommission a site of this scale and this film aims to capture that. It doesn鈥檛 matter whether you are a decommissioning operator, work in an office or have a crucial role with safety, security or environmental protection 鈥� everyone plays a part.

鈥淔or those who haven鈥檛 been able to see Dounreay for themselves, this short film shows what we are doing to progress the site鈥檚 clean up and reach an interim end state.鈥�

皇冠体育app film has been created to coincide with the launch of a new and updated Dounreay website. 皇冠体育app new platform offers improved navigation and is compatible with mobile devices, such as smartphones, which are used by an increasing number of visitors to the website.

Jill, founder of Storyboard Films, established her business after being helped by a scheme which benefited from Dounreay鈥檚 socio-economic fund. 皇冠体育app Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, as well as Dounreay, has invested more than 拢10 million in the last decade alone to help create new and sustainable jobs in Caithness and North Sutherland.

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Published 20 April 2017