Oldbury Nuclear Power Station

Oldbury Nuclear Power Station
Oldbury Nuclear Power Station
location
Coordinates	51 ° 38 '55 "  N , 2 ° 34' 15"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '55 "  N , 2 ° 34' 15"  W.
Country:	United Kingdom
Data
Owner:	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Operator:	Magnox Electric Limited
Project start:	1962
Commercial operation:	Dec 31, 1967
Shutdown:	February 29, 2012
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	2 (460 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	3,100.23 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	125,698 GWh
Was standing:	February 29, 2012
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

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

development

Oldbury Nuclear Power Station

There are two Magnox-type reactors on the 71 hectare site of the power plant .

The construction of the power plant lasted from 1961 to 1967. Reactor A1 became critical for the first time on August 1, 1967 , and reactor A2 on December 1, 1967. It was planned to shut down the power plant in the course of 2008. Its planned term of 20 years would have already been doubled. On 18 December 2008, however, was by the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (dt. NDA, authority for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities ) announced that the power plant remain in operation beyond 2009 and should be exposed to the planned 2008 shutdown. The operating company was Magnox Electric , a company of the British Nuclear Group , in turn part of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL).

Block A2 was shut down on June 30, 2011: Oldbury was one of the oldest nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom and to date the oldest still in use in the world: after consultations between the operator Magnox EnergySolutions and the owner NDA in November 2011, the assessment that the Continued operation of the world's oldest reactor could no longer be profitable, Block A1 also shut down on February 29, 2012 at 11.00 a.m. local time. Now the Beznau (CH) nuclear power plant on the Swiss-German border on the Upper Rhine is the longest-serving in the world, with 46 years of operation so far (2015).

The German energy group E.ON was planning to build a 1,600 MW EPR at the Oldbury site, which should go into operation in 2020. In 2012 E.On gave up this project due to changed framework conditions.

Horizon Nuclear Power planned the construction of two Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) with a total net output of approx. 2700 MW at this location . The first tests of the suitability of this reactor design were initiated in 2013; construction should start in the late 2020s or early 2030s after the completion of the two reactors at the Wylfa nuclear power plant, which are also being planned. In January 2019 it was announced that the company is giving up its plans.

Accidents

• May 2005: Shutdown of reactor 2 due to severe corrosion on the reactor core .
• August 2006: Shutdown of reactor 1 due to severe corrosion on the reactor core.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Oldbury Nuclear Power Plant has a total of two blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercial operation	Shutdown
Oldbury-A1	Magnox reactor	217 MW	230 MW	05/01/1962	07/11/1967	December 31, 1967	02/29/2012
Oldbury-A2	Magnox reactor	217 MW	230 MW	05/01/1962	04/06/1968	09/30/1968	06/30/2011

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
2. ↑ Oldbury powers on into 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NDA press release of December 18, 2008 
3. ↑ Oldbury Power Station shuts down ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Magnox Limited, February 29, 2012 (March 2, 2012) 
4. ↑ badische-zeitung.de, Lokales, Aargau, February 23, 2012, bz: The oldest nuclear power plant in the world will soon be running in Switzerland (February 26, 2012)
5. ↑ Welt online - E.on forges nuclear plans on the island
6. ↑ FAZ.NET - RWE and Eon stamp their nuclear plans
7. ↑ Oldbury FAQs. Horizon Nuclear Power, accessed May 16, 2014 . 
8. ↑ British nuclear power plant projects fail. Now also atomic Brexit. taz , accessed on January 19, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Reuters, October 21, 2011: Europe's oldest nuclear reactor to close early (English)
10. ↑ Oldbury-A1 in the PRIS database of the IAEA ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed: 18. March 2012 

Web links

• Magnox Limited , operator
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority , owner
• BBC-News - Power station: Cancer link claim
• Plans for dismantling (PDF file; English)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants