By George Kerevan in Thurso SUMMEN VISITORS near John o' Groats in the northeast tip of Scotland, have a new attraction this year. The orecoer nuclear reactor al vounreas has opened its doors to the public in a by the UK Authority to cornbat the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement.
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The visit disarming. are taken like computer- Apprentices ЛЕНО the 'irradiated Daily Record unconcern. absence of women). in France or Germany where reactors protestors. and ever there Dounreay was still dithering about the risks at the end of last year. But the and the mas:
London and Torness have convinced the UKAEA of the need for some concerted pubiic intentionally . Inside the Reactor Hall is апу factory. dirty blue overalls stand around chaiting, and the man in fuel cave Teaus ns apparent (There was a noticable The weight of public opinion in Thurso itself is overwhelmingly Dounred) brought local prosperity for the past fifteen town'sten thousand population work But the UKAEA don't tell it like it is. I's what they leave out 0i presentation that disturbing Attached Dounreay Vulcan, a British navy shore station which trains naval personer in rechniques of handling reactors in Vuican also carries out long range submarines of ten years hence. research work is handled by a civilian contractor, Rolls Royce Associates The reason for the proximity of HMS Dounreay, however, consists just interchange