MORE than 900 workers faced with a pay cut have voted for strike action at the Dounreay nuclear plant.

The Caithness site had been home to Britain’s experimental fast-breeder reactor programme since the 1950s, but since 1994 it has moved from electricity production and into what is expected to be decades of decommissioning work to make the site safe.

Since 2005 the site has been owned by the British government’s Nuclear Decommisioning Authority, managed by their Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) arm whose recent 4.5 per cent pay offer — backdated to April 2023 — has so angered workers.