Wylfa nuclear power plant
| Wylfa nuclear power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 25 '0 " N , 4 ° 29' 0" W | |
| Country: | United Kingdom | |
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| Owner: | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority | |
| Operator: | Magnox Electric Limited | |
| Project start: | 1963 | |
| Commercial operation: | Nov 1, 1971 | |
| Shutdown: | Dec 30, 2015 | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
2 (1080 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 2006: | 5,663 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 197,090 GWh | |
| Was standing: | July 25, 2007 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Wylfa Nuclear Power Plant is located west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey in north Wales in the United Kingdom .
History and technical data
The nuclear power plant comprises two Magnox reactors with an installed capacity of 490 MW each ("Wylfa-1" and "Wylfa-2"). Construction began in 1963 and commissioned in 1971.
The nuclear power plant was operated by Magnox Electric Limited and is owned by the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA, the German authority for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities ). It was originally supposed to be shut down in 2010 for economic reasons.
On April 25, 2012, Wylfa-2 went offline five days earlier than planned due to an unplanned downtime and was no longer started up. After the power plant operator received the approval to use the partially used nuclear fuel rods from the Wylfa 2 reactor in the Wylfa 1 reactor and the production of the Magnox fuel elements had expired, Wylfa 1 was originally supposed to continue operating until September 30, 2014. For a further extension of the term until December 2015, further security checks were necessary, which were completed in September 2014. On December 30, 2015, Wylfa-1 was the last of the UK's Magnox reactors to be shut down.
Planned new power plant
Two boiling water reactors with an output of 3,100 MW were to be built at the Wylfa site; commissioning was planned for 2027. Hitachi Ltd. put plans to build the reactors on hold in January 2019.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Wylfa 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 |
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| Wylfa-1 | Magnox reactor | 490 MW | 540 MW | 09/01/1963 | 01/24/1971 | 11/01/1971 | 12/30/2015 |
| Wylfa-2 | Magnox reactor | 490 MW | 540 MW | 09/01/1963 | 07/21/1971 | 03/01/1972 | 04/25/2012 |
See also
Web links
- Official site of the operator (English)
- About the power plant (English)
- Plague: Wylfa (Great Britain)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wylfa definitely closing in 2010 ( English ) BBC News. July 20, 2006. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
- ↑ Reactor 2 shutdown. magnoxsites.co.uk, April 25, 2012, archived from the original January 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Magnox Sites Wylfa - Key near term activities ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Magnox Sites Wylfa - Wylfa continues to 2015 ( Memento of the original of June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ gov.uk: Nationally relevant infrastructure projects in England and Wales - here: the planned nuclear power plant Wylfa Newydd from July 6, 2018
- ↑ sumikai.com:Hitachi to stop nuclear power plant in Great Britain from January 12, 2019
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
