Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment

Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment
Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment
	Entrance road to Vulcan NRTE
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	58°34′34.43″N 3°45′27.96″W / 58.5762306°N 3.7577667°W
Status	Decommissioning
Construction began	1957
Commission date	1965
Owner(s)	Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Operator(s)	Rolls-Royce Submarines
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Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), formerly HMS Vulcan, is a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishment in Scotland, operated by Rolls-Royce Submarines.

The site formerly operated two separate prototype nuclear reactors, trialling five different types of submarine reactor core.^[1]

The site is located adjacent to the Dounreay civil nuclear site.

^ Newton, Wendy (17 September 2019). "Decommissioning Vulcan NRTE: Updated Presentation Given to DSG February 2019" (PDF). Dounreay Stakeholder Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.

[1] Newton, Wendy (17 September 2019). "Decommissioning Vulcan NRTE: Updated Presentation Given to DSG February 2019" (PDF). Dounreay Stakeholder Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.

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