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but to help them.” the Covid­19 pandemic reflecting a significant return in visitor numbers at one of the region’s busiest attractions.

The work at Dounreay complements and builds on the recent deployment of Spot at Sellafield, demonstrating how learning is being shared across sites to deliver better outcomes, move people further away from harm and decommission more efficiently.

Over the two­week Easter holiday, the National Railway Museum received more than 52,000 visitors ­ boosted by the visit of Flying Scotsmanachieving more footfall than in the same period in 2019, prior to the pandemic.

Rose Mockford, of the National Railway Museum, said: “Wonderlab will celebrate the inventiveness and wonder of engineering, science and the railways and it will enable thousands of young visitors to take the first steps on their journeys of creativity, experimentation and finding solutions to the challenges of the future.”