Chapelcross nuclear power station

Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The nuclear power plant Chapel Cross (also: Chapel Cross Processing Plant ( CXPP ), codenamed CANDLE ) located near the town of Annan in the county of Dumfries and Galloway in south west Scotland and was built together with the nuclear power plant, Calder Hall.

The power plant was built in the late 1950s to supply the south of Scotland with electricity. Another reason, however, was the desire to plutonium for Britain's nuclear weapons.

It was 1959, the public power grid and was taken in the year 2004 after almost 45 years from the mains. Finally, it was one of the oldest operating nuclear power plants in the world.

Originally operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Production Group ( UKAEA ), the current owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the operator is Magnox Electric.

At the power plant complex Chapel Cross is four Magnox reactors with a net electrical power output of 48 MW and a gross capacity of 60 megawatts.

Accidents

In May 1967 there was a partial meltdown in the second block was caused by a fuel rod test, in which a graphite particles clogged cooling. The core was renewed in 1969 and returned to service.

In 2001 there was an incident that was supplied as 3 reactor with fresh fuel.

Nuclear power plant Chapel Cross

Data of the reactor units

The Chapel Cross nuclear power plant has a total of four blocks:

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