Oldbury Nuclear Power Station

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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The decommissioned nuclear power plant Oldbury is located at the mouth of the Severn about 20 km north of Bristol in the small villages Oldbury and Thornbury in South Gloucestershire.

Development

On the 71 acre site of the power plant has two reactors of the Magnox type.

The construction of the power station lasted from 1961 until 1967. A1 The reactor was on August 1, 1967 for the first time critical, the reactor A2 on 1 December 1967. Was scheduled to shut down the power plant during the year 2008. Its planned duration of 20 years would have been so already doubled. On 18 December 2008, however, was supported by the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA, German authority for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities ) announced that the power plant remain about the year 2009 in operation and should be exposed for 2008 planned shutdown. The operating company was Magnox Electric, a subsidiary of British Nuclear Group, again a part of the company British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL ).

June 30, 2011 block A2 has been switched off: Oldbury was one of the oldest nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom and was to date the oldest still in use worldwide: after consultations between the operator Magnox Energy Solutions and the owner NDA in November 2011 was based on the assessment that the continued operation of the world's oldest reactor could no longer be profitable, also block off A1 on 29 February 2012 at 11.00 local time clock. Now the Beznau nuclear power plant (CH) on the Swiss- German border on the Upper Rhine with currently (2013 ) 44 years of operation, the longest serving of the world.

The German energy company E.ON was planning to build a 1,600 MW at the site Oldbury strong European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR ), which should go into operation in 2020. 2012, this project was abandoned due to changed conditions.

Incidents

Data of the reactor units

The nuclear power plant Oldbury has a total of two blocks:

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