Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant

Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	52 ° 55 ′ 30 ″  N , 3 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 30 ″  N , 3 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W.
Country:	United Kingdom
Data
Owner:	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Operator:	Magnox Electric Limited
Project start:	1957
Commercial operation:	March 24, 1965
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	2 (470 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	47,185 GWh
Was standing:	January 24, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The decommissioned Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant is located in the United Kingdom on Llyn Trawsfynydd near Trawsfynydd , Gwynedd , Wales and was in operation from 1965 to 1991. The two block nuclear power plant was the only one in inland Wales.

Reactors

The Trawsfynydd nuclear power plant comprised two reactor blocks. Both reactors were Magnox reactors with a net electrical output of 195  MWe and a gross electrical output of 235 MWe. Construction of both reactors began on July 1, 1959. The first reactor block became critical for the first time on September 1, 1964 . On January 14, 1965, the first reactor block was synchronized with the power grid , and the second on February 2 of the same year. On March 24, 1965, both reactors went into commercial operation. The second reactor block was shut down on February 4, 1991, and the first two days later.

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  Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant

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  Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Trawsfynydd nuclear power plant had a total of two units :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercial operation	Shutdown
Trawsfynydd-1	Magnox reactor	195 MW	235 MW	07/01/1959	01/14/1965	March 24, 1965	02/06/1991
Trawsfynydd-2	Magnox reactor	195 MW	235 MW	07/01/1959	02/02/1965	March 24, 1965	02/04/1991

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1. ↑ Industcards - Brief descriptions of nuclear power plants ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2009) 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. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)

Web links

Commons : Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Magnox Limited , operator
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority , owner

See also

• List of nuclear power plants