Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant
| Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 0 '56 " N , 3 ° 13' 35" W | |
| Country: | United Kingdom | |
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| Owner: | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority | |
| Operator: | Magnox Electric Limited | |
| Project start: | 1955 | |
| Commercial operation: | March 1, 1959 | |
| Shutdown: | June 29, 2004 | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
4 (240 MW) | |
| Was standing: | June 30, 2007 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Chapelcross nuclear power plant (also: Chapelcross Processing Plant (CXPP), code name CANDLE ) was located near the city of Annan in the administrative district of Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland , was built together with the Calder Hall nuclear power plant and gradually demolished from 2007.
The power station was built in the late 1950s to supply the south of Scotland with electricity. Another reason, however, was the targeted plutonium production for British nuclear weapons.
It went to the public grid in 1959 and was taken off the grid in 2004 after almost 45 years of operation. Most recently it was one of the oldest nuclear power plants still in operation in the world.
Originally operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Production Group (UKAEA), the current owner is the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the operator is Magnox Electric .
The Chapelcross power plant complex consisted of four Magnox reactors, each with a net electrical output of 48 megawatts and a gross output of 60 megawatts each.
Accidents
In May 1967 there was a partial core meltdown in Block 2. The cause was a test fuel rod in which a graphite particle blocked the cooling system. The core was renewed and put back into operation in 1969.
In 2001 there was an incident when reactor 3 was being supplied with new fuel.
Shutdown and demolition
Electricity generation ended in 2004 because modernization of the power plant would have been too expensive.
On May 20, 2007, the four cooling towers were blown up. The reactors were cleared between December 2012 and March 2013.
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant
Data of the reactor blocks
The Chapelcross nuclear power plant has a total of four blocks :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercial operation | Shutdown |
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| Chapelcross-1 | Magnox reactor | 48 MW | 60 MW | 10/01/1955 | 02/01/1959 | 03/01/1959 | 06/29/2004 |
| Chapelcross-2 | Magnox reactor | 48 MW | 60 MW | 10/01/1955 | 07/01/1959 | 08/01/1959 | 06/29/2004 |
| Chapelcross-3 | Magnox reactor | 48 MW | 60 MW | 10/01/1955 | 11/01/1959 | December 01, 1959 | 06/29/2004 |
| Chapelcross-4 | Magnox reactor | 48 MW | 60 MW | 10/01/1955 | 01/01/1960 | 03/01/1960 | 06/29/2004 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
Web links
- Magnox Limited ( Memento of October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority , owner
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Chapelcross ( Memento of October 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- British Nuclear Group - Chapelcross ( Memento of November 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), former operator
- Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station
- Chapelcross to close ( Memento from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Bellona Foundation , June 29, 2004
- NII Report on Dropped Basket Event ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.58 MB)
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-20812919