Winfrith

Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The former nuclear power plant is located at Winfrith Winfrith, Dorset in the UK. It was in operation from 1968 to 1990. Owners and operators of the nuclear power plant was the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ).

Reactor

The nuclear power plant Winfrith consisted of a light water cooled and heavy-water moderated reactor of the type SGHWR ( Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor) with a net electrical output of 92 MWe and a gross output of 100 MWe. This nuclear reactor was during the operating time and remains to this day the only one of its type. At the European Commission it is passed as a "great power reactors".

Start up / shutdown

Construction of the nuclear power plant Winfrith was on 1 May 1963. The reactor was first synchronized on 1 December 1967, the power supply and went into commercial operation on 1 January 1968. He provided more than 22 years, a total of 10,957 gigawatt hours of electricity for the commercial power grid, until it was finally shut down on 11 September 1990.

Closure

Since the reactor was shut down in 1990, major decommissioning work has been carried out. By 2017, the reactor is to be definitively closed down.

Progress to date of decommissioning:

Transportation of fuel and draining the reactor
Reducing the administrative building
Care and maintenance of the plant before the final demolition

Originally, the decommissioning work should last over 100 years. Meanwhile, this plan was revised.

Data of the reactor block

The nuclear power plant Winfrith had a block:

Swell

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