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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]
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.
Sizewell C nuclear power station is a project to construct a 3,200 MWe nuclear power station with two EPR reactors in Suffolk, England. [3] The project was proposed by a consortium of EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Group , which own 80% and 20% of the project respectively.
On 21 September 2015 Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced that a Chinese designed nuclear power station was expected to be built at Bradwell nuclear power station. [25] [26] [27] On 19 January 2017 the GDA process for the Hualong One (HPR1000) started, [28] and successfully finished in February 2022. [29]
The company has been given financial support by the UK Government to develop its design. In 2019 it was estimated that the 470 MWe units would cost around £1.8 billion once in full production, compared with £22 billion for a full-sized nuclear power station such as the planned 3,300 MWe Sizewell C. Construction time and site size needed would ...
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 ...
Great British Nuclear (GBN), formerly British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), is a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government. It is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero .
Hinkley Point B nuclear power station was a nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel coast of south west England. It was the first commercial Advanced Gas Cooled reactor to generate power to the National Grid in 1976 and shares its design with sister station Hunterston B nuclear power station. It ceased operations ...