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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]
Nuclear (magnox) 200: 1956: 2003: 2007 (cooling towers) 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 ...
Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station, also known as Wylfa B, was a proposed project to construct a 2,700 MWe nuclear power station with two ABWR reactors in Anglesey, Wales. [1] The project was owned by Horizon Nuclear Power which is a subsidiary of Hitachi , [ 2 ] who are also the main shareholder in Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, the supplier of ...
Moorside clean energy hub is a proposal put forward on 30 June 2020 by a Rolls-Royce-led UK SMR consortium, to create an energy hub that would produce electricity and hydrogen through the use of nuclear power and renewable energy. [37] [10] In 2018, Toshiba abandoned its plans to build a power plant on the site, known as Moorside nuclear power ...
British Energy was established and registered in Scotland in 1995 to operate the eight most modern nuclear power plants in the UK. It took the two Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) plants from Scottish Nuclear and five AGR and a sole pressurised water reactor (PWR) plant from Nuclear Electric.
The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant under construction (now halted) This table lists stations under construction stations without any reactor in service. Planned connection column indicates the connection of the first reactor, not thus whole capacity.
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 .
The Urenco Group is a British-German-Dutch nuclear fuel consortium operating several uranium enrichment plants in Germany, the Netherlands, United States, and United Kingdom. [1] It supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries, and states that it had a 29% share of the global market for enrichment services in 2011.