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Dounreay graduates create online work experience for young people





The Dounreay virtual work experience project team
The Dounreay virtual work experience project team

A team of Dounreay graduates joined forces to come up with a virtual way of delivering work experience to young people.

Covid-19 restrictions meant the site was unable to offer local high school pupils their normal work experience week this year.

But a group of apprentices and graduates got together to create a virtual experience instead with help from their in-house training and development team, the national organisation Speakers for Schools and other Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) operating companies.

The sessions were well attended, with students from as far afield as London and Derby taking part. The programme featured planning and building a hypothetical low-level waste facility with students taking on roles such as engineers, safety advisers and waste operators.

The final activity was to make a model of the waste facility.

Julia Massey, regional head of Speakers for Schools, said: “The young project team masterfully brought together a well-structured and high-impact programme delivered to next generation nuclear engineers.

“The session really helped to build the confidence of the students."

The NDA now hopes the programme can be repeated at other sites.

The NDA’s people strategy delivery manager, Codie Barnes, said: “The team at Dounreay put in an extraordinary amount of effort to ensure the event was a success.

"It has been a pleasure working in partnership with Dounreay and Speakers for Schools to develop a virtual work experience opportunity for young people. They’ve created something really special that I hope we can use across the rest of the NDA group.”


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