- the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station (now being decommissioned), which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
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Dounreay /ˌduːnˈreɪ/ n