Dungeness Nuclear Power Station
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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):
The Dungeness nuclear power station is located near Dungeness in the south east of the county of Kent in the UK and consists of 4 reactors. Two reactors of the old Magnox series (area A ) are currently being dismantled, the two newer reactors ( area B) since 1983 /85 commercial operation.
Dungeness A
Dungeness A consisted of two Magnox reactors with a total of 460 MW of electrical gross output. The block A1 of the nuclear power plant was the first time on June 1, 1965 critical of the block A2 followed on 1 September 1965. The first network synchronization took place in 1965.
Dungeness A was shut down in late 2006 for economic reasons, in 2010 the Turbine Hall was demolished. The decommissioning costs estimated 600 million British pounds. These reactors were among the world's oldest still operating Magnox reactors, here, the reactor core was wrapped not with concrete, but only with steel.
Dungeness B
Dungeness B consists of two EGR with a total of 1,230 MW of electrical gross output. The block B1 was for the first time on 23 December 1982 critical of the block B2 followed on 4 December 1985. The first network synchronization of reactor B1 was April 3, 1983, from reactor B2 on 29 December 1985.
On 29 June 2009, there was an incident at the fuel switch in the block B1. This has been classified by the International Atomic Energy Agency with the Level 2 on the International Nuclear Event Scale evaluation. According to the IAEA report was " found when lowering the fuel plug on a fresh fuel carrier that the clutch was not latched properly and a foreign body was trapped ." This was believed to be a foreign body covering an elastic piece which has previously been used for maintenance. There were no fuel damage; it came out of no radioactive substances.
Dungeness nuclear power station
Consumption of the system
Data of the reactor units
The Dungeness nuclear power plant has a total of four blocks:
Others
From 1961 to 1984 they were located on the site of the nuclear power plant Dungeness the converter station for the HVDC cable to France ( endpoint Echingem ).