Dounreay
Michael Tait has extensive experience in engineering and agricultural sectors, currently serving as a Project Manager and Chemical Engineer at NRS Dounreay since August 2016. Additionally, Michael has been involved in the family business, D & M Tait, as a farmer since July 2001, where skills in equipment development and task optimization have been honed. Previous roles include an Undergraduate Process Engineer at Teekay Corporation and a Process Engineering Intern at SGL Group - The Carbon Company, where Michael conducted significant research on gas emissions during the oxidation stage of production. Early work included driving high-value farm machinery for West Greenland Agricultural Contractors. Michael holds a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with Oil and Gas Technology from Heriot-Watt University, attained in 2016.
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Dounreay
Dounreay was the UK’s centre of fast reactor research and development from 1955 until 1994 and is now Scotland’s largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project. This was where some of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers experimented with plutonium, uranium and other metals to give Britain the knowledge to generate electricity using a more advanced type of nuclear reactor. Their research and development is now complete. The equipment and materials they used to gain this knowledge is being packed up and the environment restored by a new generation of staff skilled in nuclear clean-up. Today, Dounreay is part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Group and a site of construction, demolition and waste management, all of it designed to return the site to as near as practicable its original condition.