Dounreay Nuclear Power Station, Caithness, Scotland

This is a proper nuclear power station, none of this anonymous rectangular cladding which characterises modern power plants.  The spherical reactor looks exactly as a nuclear reactor should look and reminds me of the power plants you had to destroy in Thrust on the BBC Micro computer.



This was easy to find.



It now looks like this:



Slightly sadder, no longer a place where Britain will be propelled forward with the white heat of technology, however it still looks like a proper nuclear power station which is something to be proud of.

I actually bicycled past this whilst I was on my Land's End to John O'Groats ride, a poor photo from the road can be found here. 

Here's a link to the complete blog of that ride if anyone's interested.