Dounreay

A hugely-popular tourist driving route faces disruption while a stretch is used to transport nuclear waste. With the UK terror threat remaining “severe,” police have been granted the power to close a nine-mile stretch of the lucrative North Coast 500 route for public safety reasons. The move is to allow shipments to be transported along the A836 from the Dounreay atomic plant in Caithness to the port of Scrabster – then on to Sellafield in Cumbria.

Press & Journal 10th July 2017 read more »