A FORMER Dounreay worker who took legal action against his former employers after contracting a lung disease has agreed an out-of-court settlement. Jimmy Reid, who worked at the site for 37 years, claimed that up until the late 1990s workers at the atom plant were never given any specialist equipment or training on how to deal with asbestos. In 2014 he was diagnosed with pleural plaques, characterised by the thickening of the lining of the lungs caused by asbestos inhalation.
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