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.
In 2007, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) asked the site stakeholder group to consult locally on the preferred end state.
The stakeholder group asked for: "An open and transparent decision on the future of the DFR sphere, taking into account its 'national heritage significance".
The NDA and DSRL, in partnership with Historic Scotland and Atkins Heritage, have worked together to establish a way forward for creating a cultural legacy of the site.
A draft heritage strategy has been prepared by DSRL, with support from Atkins Heritage, to consider a number of options to retain the heritage of the Dounreay site for public benefit beyond the interim end point in 2025.
The brief was to consider the whole of the site and heritage in the widest sense. Whilst NDA & DSRL recognise the significance of retaining industrial heritage this can be done in a number of ways and may not rely on the retention of key buildings.
From December 10, 2009, DSRL is inviting comments from staff, contractors and the general public on the proposals set out in the Heritage Strategy documents. They have until 8 March 2010 to send in their views.
To have your say on which aspects of Dounreay should be preserved for posterity go to -
http://www.dounreay.com/social-responsibility/consultations/open/heritage--have-your-say
