Why was it called FRED?

[Dog-eared]

Caithness would look the same as any other thinly-populated part of Northern Scotland or Orkney today.

Without Dounreay, we wouldn't have a huge amount of incomers , now recognised as local people, abandoned by an ex - experimental establishment , wondering where their families' future now lies.

[Freia]

Fudged Reactor Everyone Duck

[northener]

Caithness would look the same as any other thinly-populated part of Northern Scotland or Orkney today.

Without Dounreay, we wouldn't have a huge amount of incomers , now recognised as local people, abandoned by an ex - experimental establishment , wondering where their families' future now lies.

Economic ebbs and flows, old chap. Happens all the time all over the world.
For example, many miners from Scotland moved down to Yorkshire for work, and many Scottish steelworkers moved to Corby for work....all those jobs have gone now.
Wait until the oil runs out in the North Sea and then see what happens to the much lauded 'micro-economy' that is Aberdeen. That's going to be interesting.

Regarding 'as far away as possible from London', actually, that's not a fair criticism. There's more than a few nuclear reactors dahn Sarf.
Common sense would dictate that you don't have potentially problematic plants near large populations, but, overall, it's not been done at Scotlands' expense.
There's only three nuclear establishments in Scotland, yet there's thirteen in England and Wales.