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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generated 16.1% of the country's electricity in 2020. [1] As of August 2022, the UK has 9 operational nuclear reactors at five locations (8 advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) and one pressurised water reactor (PWR)), producing 5.9 GWe. [2]
A reactor at the largest nuclear power station in a county has been turned back on after £75m worth of improvement works were carried out. Sizewell B Power Station, in Sizewell, Suffolk, has ...
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a two-unit, 3,200 MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England. [ 4 ] The site was one of eight announced by the British government in 2010, [ 5 ] and in November 2012 a nuclear site licence was granted.
Hinkley Point A nuclear power station is a former Magnox nuclear power station. It is located on a 19.4-hectare (48-acre) site in Somerset on the Bristol Channel coast, 5 miles (8 km) west of the River Parrett estuary. The ongoing decommissioning process is being managed by Nuclear Decommissioning Authority licensee Nuclear Restoration Services.
Bradwell nuclear power station is a Magnox-design nuclear power station that is undergoing decommissioning. It is located on the Dengie peninsula at the mouth of the River Blackwater, Essex . In 2019, it was the first nuclear power station in the UK to be placed into long-term decommissioned management.
4x50 MW. First nuclear power station in the UK. Cambridge [6] Cambridge Cambridgeshire East Coal 7.26 1966? Canterbury [1] Canterbury Kent South East 51°17'03"N 1°05'10"E Coal 4.4 1900 1960 Yes Carlisle: Carlisle Cumbria North West 54°53'25"N 2°56'10" Coal 5.25 1899 1927 No Building extant Carlisle: Carlisle Cumbria North West
[64] [65] This date was met as Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the UK's last operational coal power station, ceased running on 30 September 2024. The United Kingdom had continuously burned coal for the generation of electricity since the opening of Holborn Viaduct power station in 1882. On several occasions in May 2016, Britain burned no coal for ...
Berkeley was the first commercial nuclear power station in the United Kingdom to be decommissioned. So far the nuclear decommissioning process has involved the removal of all fuel from the site in 1992, and the demolition of structures such as the turbine hall in 1995 and cooling ponds in 2001. [ 7 ]