Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944.
In 1955 the airfield was taken over by the
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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(UKAEA) for developing a
fast breeder reactor
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. One runway was kept operational until the 1990s for transport to/from the site.
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Dounreay
Dounreay (; ) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness
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Caithness
Defunct airports in Scotland
Airports established in 1944