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North Division Officers Receive Awards at Ceremony in WickThumbnail for article : North Division Officers Receive Awards at Ceremony in Wick
Police Officers from North Division received awards at a ceremony at Wick Police Station on 25th November 2010 A total of 18 officers gained awards for long service, academic achievements and commendation for their efforts at a incident or event at the ceremony which took place on Thursday evening (25 November 2010).   Seven officers received their long service medals for completing between 20 and 22 years service, two gained their awards for academic qualification and a remaining nine were commended for their commitment to the service.  
Northern Constabulary Roads Report - 1645hrs 5/12/10
The Northern Constabulary force area continues to be affected by snow and low temperatures.   All roads in the Northern Constabulary force area are open.  
Caithness & North Sutherland Regeneration P'ship Update 22 Nov 2010
Week commencing 22nd November This week's main focus has been finalising a draft of the delivery programme that describes how the partners will achieve the aims set out in our 2011-2014 Action Plan.  In developing this draft programme I have been working with collegues from HIE in particular.  
HIE Board backs £13m investment in major projects
Businesses and communities in Caithness, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides look set to benefit from investment in major infrastructure projects approved today (Monday 22 November) by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).   The HIE Board (Monday 22 November) has approved grants totalling more than £13m to develop three major projects.  
French Nuclear Experts At Dounreay
Four experts from the Autorité de Sureté Nucleaire, the French nuclear safety inspectorate, spent a day at Dounreay discussing the decommissioning of alkali metal cooled fast reactors.   The visit was hosted by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate as part of international collaboration over nuclear health and safety matters.  
DOUNREAY SITE NEWSPAPER FOR NOVEMBER ONLINE
The November issue of the site newspaper, Dounreay News, has now been published and is also available online.   www.dounreay.com/news/2010-11-03/dounreay-site-newspaper-for-november-online .  
Dounreay Boss Welcomed Funding Announcement
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd recently welcomed an announcement about how much public money will be available to continue nuclear clean-up in the UK.   DSRL manages the closure of the site on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which today confirmed that its total expenditure, including income generated, would be maintained at current levels of around £3bn a year.  
Casualty Star Treads The Boards For Safety At DounreayThumbnail for article : Casualty Star Treads The Boards For Safety At Dounreay
Casualty star Ronnie McCann is helping workers at Dounreay stay out of real-life accident and emergency units.   The actor, who appeared 43 times in the BBC series as nurse Barney Woolfe, has been treading the boards as part of European Safety Week at the site of Britain's biggest nuclear decommissioning project.  
Offshore clean-up recovers more than 270 fragmentsThumbnail for article : Offshore clean-up recovers more than 270 fragments
More than 270 fragments of nuclear fuel have been recovered from the seabed since the latest phase of offshore clean-up got underway at the start of August.   Of the 279 recovered to date, 40 fragments have been categorised as a "significant risk" to health, with the remainder falling into lower levels of radioactivity.  
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Escape's Caithness office secures five-year contract worth £100,000Thumbnail for article : Escape's Caithness office secures five-year contract worth £100,000
Escape Business Technologies has secured a contract worth up to £100,000 with the Pentland Housing Association in Caithness.  This is the first new contract to be secured by the firm's Caithness office, recently launched to serve the growing Highland business community.  
Dounreay Demolishing 100 Square Feet A Day
Dounreay is being demolished at a rate of 100 sq.  ft.  
A Special Career Made Even More SpecialThumbnail for article : A Special Career Made Even More Special
For the past year Northern Constabulary has been working on a dedicated project to make the Special Constabulary even more special.   The forcewide project has been running since June last year.  
DSRL continues to reduce in size
DSRL is updating staff, trade unions and key stakeholders about the latest forecasts for continued planned reductions in its workforce as more of the site is decommissioned.   Staffing levels at the site licence company have dropped from a peak of just under 1300 in 2005 to approximately 970 today as the hazard has reduced.  
Pentland Alliance Backs Apprentice Skills Project For CaithnessThumbnail for article : Pentland Alliance Backs Apprentice Skills Project For Caithness
Pentland Alliance, the joint venture comprising AMEC, CH2M HILL and UKAEA/Babcock, is to sponsor an important apprentice skills programme for the Caithness region in the north of Scotland.   The sponsorship was announced on Thursday, February 11th in Manchester at the National Skills Academy for Nuclear/Cogent Annual Skills Awards Dinner.  
Dounreay Heritage - Have Your SayThumbnail for article : Dounreay Heritage - Have Your Say
Dounreay was the centre of the UK's fast reactor research and development programme from 1955 until 1994, and is now Scotland's largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project.  By 2025, DSRL expects to have completed the decommissioning of the site.  
Dounreay News - February 2010Thumbnail for article : Dounreay News - February 2010
The latest edition of Dounreay News is available at http://www.dounreay.com/news-room/dounreay-news Always packed with photos of past events and current activities at the site..  
Coolant destruction is 4000 times cleaner than expected
Emissions from a plant built to destroy one of Britain's biggest environmental hazards have been up to 4000 times cleaner than its designers expected.   Engineers believed they could reduce the levels of radioactivity in effluent from a new liquid metal destruction plant by up to a thousand times at most.  
Homeaid Caithness To Expand With New Funding
A Caithness and Sutherland charity which helps hundreds of local people every year who are facing hardship is expanding its services.   Homeaid, which redistributes donated household items to the elderly and low income residents, is planning to buy a shop in Wick and extend its warehouse in Thurso.  
Dounreay to become UK's first nuclear heritage projectThumbnail for article : Dounreay to become UK's first nuclear heritage project
Within a few years, much of the experimental nuclear site at Dounreay will disappear from the landscape.   Many of the facilities that have dominated the skyline of Scotland's north coast for the past 50 years will be razed to the ground.  
Fast breeder was Britain's 'man on the moon moment'Thumbnail for article : Fast breeder was Britain's 'man on the moon moment'
It was Britain's man-on-the-moon moment, when a decade of scientific and engineering breakthroughs culminated in the most advanced nuclear plant in the world.   A workforce of 3000 had laboured around the clock for four years to build the experimental plant that would pave the way for electricity "too cheap to meter".