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Dounreay heritage strategy

皇冠体育app Dounreay Heritage Strategy was published in 2010 and is managed by the DSRL heritage officer with advice from a panel of external experts from Historic Environment Scotland (HES), National Museums Scotland (NMS), Highlife Highland (HLH) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). 皇冠体育app Heritage Advisory Panel held its ninth meeting on 26 March 2019 in Nucleus: 皇冠体育app Nuclear and Caithness Archives.

In February 2019, the Caithness Horizons Board took the decision to close the facility due to a number of reasons. Representatives from HES and NMS have offered to provide practical advice and guidance to the Caithness Horizons Board or the Highland Council, about issues relating to managing a museum. It is hoped that the facility will re-open under new management.

Key Activities for 2018/19

Collection of objects

• 37 objects were collected throughout the year;
• Photomultiplier electron tube
• Boron carbide pellets
• PFR demountable sub assembly spares
• Site emergency alarm button from DFR control room
• DFR postcard
• Formal card invites from Dounreay Director for DFR and PFR ceremonies
• Three authorised appointment cards for shift manager roles
• Various letters to G Blagden from 1950s and 1960s
• 1983 UKAEA nuclear safety course 鈥� programme of visits and lectures
• Attendance certificate for advanced reactor technology course
• Dounreay pen
• Two UKAEA key rings
• UKAEA screwdriver set
• Crane driver鈥檚 certificate dated 1981
• Caithness Glass bowl on wooden plinth for UKAEA winners of 鈥淟eaders in innovation鈥� in 2005
• 2018 NDA mug
• Metal pin badge with DFR silhouette and 鈥淯KAEA Dounreay鈥�
• UKAEA eraser
• Flexi armband
• DFR postcard dated 1962
• Densitometer for TLD film
• 20 finger thermoluminescent dosemeters (TLDs)
• TLD 鈥渃hips鈥� and glass annealing plate
• Two yellow plastic TLD badges
• Two brass TLD powder sieves
• Dosimetry services reference handbook - dated March 1999
• UKAEA house rent cards for 1975/76 and 1976/77
• House rent agreement
• Dounreay House Owners Association constitution
• ROC mug featuring ROC and Dounreay logos
• Johnson Controls coaster for advertising the Dounreay helpdesk
• Craft Apprentice signed competency certificate for electricity 鈥� dated 1977
• UKAEA Dounreay booklet 鈥淒esign office abbreviations, symbols and statements鈥�
• Industrial superannuation scheme booklet - dated 1973
• UKAEA clear plastic ruler which incorporates a sliding jigsaw puzzle about learning
• Leather wallet containing electrical safety rules dated 1999
• UKAEA wallet with inserts for small information cards

皇冠体育app closure of Caithness Horizons Museum in February 2019 means that there is no local display of Dounreay objects. 皇冠体育app Highland Council is now responsible for the collections in the museum.

Recording history

A process to capture the memories of those leaving the site is in place and nineteen forms were completed and returned. 皇冠体育app form has 5 questions.

Other activities

Knowledge sharing presentations

James Gunn, Heritage Officer, gave a presentation at the international industrial heritage conference held in Wick on 23 June 2018, entitled; 鈥淒ounreay: past, present and future鈥�. It was jointly organised by Historic Environment Scotland, the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group and the Scottish Industrial Heritage Society. Fifty attendees came from the UK and Japan.

James also gave a presentation at the Kingston University London, to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research network 鈥淣uclear cultural heritage: From knowledge to practice鈥�. 皇冠体育app international seminar had 36 attendees from the UK, Russia, USA and Lithuania.

James took part in the 2019 Caithness International Science Festival by giving a public talk about the early years of Dounreay. It was held at Nucleus: 皇冠体育app Nuclear and Caithness Archives and was attended by 40 people. V&A Dundee Museum of Design

皇冠体育app V&A Dundee museum opened on 15 September 2018 and various representatives from Dounreay were invited and attended the preview day. 皇冠体育app museum features a model of the DFR sphere, which is on loan from Caithness Horizons and initially also featured work by four Dounreay apprentices who created a travel app called 鈥淲ilderness鈥� as part of a country-wide design relay project for the V&A. 皇冠体育app museum expects over 500,000 visitors in the first year.

皇冠体育app sphere also features in a book entitled 鈥澔使谔逵齛pp story of Scottish design鈥� edited by Philip Long & Joanna Norman, printed by Thames & Hudson. 皇冠体育appre is a photo and a drawing of the sphere.

Film

Natalie Cubides-Brady, a film studies student, undertook filming at Dounreay and Caithness throughout 2018 as part of her studies. Entitled; 鈥淏eyond the north winds: A post nuclear reverie鈥� it is due to be screened at a film festival in Switzerland in April 2019. Other international film festivals are being approached, including Edinburgh.

皇冠体育app film cannot be viewed until after various festival screenings take place, otherwise it will be disqualified. J Gunn and A MacConnell feature in the 25 minute film, which has a different approach to the usual Dounreay films.

Research studies

皇冠体育app University of the Highlands and Islands has two on-going doctoral studies that cover Dounreay and the nuclear industry. 皇冠体育app thesis titles are:

鈥溁使谔逵齛pp Dounreay Nuclear Establishment and its impact on the Northern Highlands of Scotland鈥�. This study will be finished in Summer 2019.

鈥淎rchiving a nuclear past: exploring the nuclear energy industry and its community impact in Britain.鈥� Strategy

皇冠体育app NDA is intending to publish a national heritage strategy covering all its sites and it will be based on the learning experiences of the Dounreay heritage strategy.

James Gunn
Heritage Officer
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
e-mail: [email protected]

20 May 2019