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Berkeley

Berkeley nuclear power station is a decommissioned Magnox nuclear power station situated on the eastern bank of the River Severn in Gloucestershire and was also home to the Berkeley research laboratories. The ongoing decommissioning process is being managed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority subsidiary, Magnox Ltd.

Bradwell

Bradwell is a twin Magnox reactor site now undergoing decommissioning following shutdown in March 2002 after 40 years of operation.

Chapelcross

Chapelcross is a four-reactor station with eight 30 MW turbines now undergoing decommissioning. At full power when operational, the station produced enough electricity to supply every home in South West Scotland, the Borders and Cumbria.

Dounreay

This was the UK's centre of fast reactor research and development from 1955 until 1994 and is now Scotland's largest nuclear clean-up and demolition project.

Dungeness A

Dungeness A power station started generating electricity in 1965 and ceased generation at the end of 2006 after 40 years of supplying electricity to the national grid.

Harwell

Harwell was established in 1946 as Britain's first Atomic Energy Research Establishment. Decommissioning at Harwell is well underway.

Hunterston A

Hunterston A is a twin reactor Magnox power station. It was shutdown in 1990 and is now being decommissioned. The station generated around 360MW of electricity during its 25 year operating life - enough electricity to supply 700,000 homes.

Oldbury

Oldbury nuclear power station is a decommissioned Nuclear Restoration Services Limited nuclear power station situated on the eastern bank of the River Severn in South Gloucestershire.

Sellafield Limited

The site has been operational since the 1940s and led the development of the UK’s nuclear industry, from the production of plutonium for the country’s nuclear deterrent programme through to the development of nuclear power generation.

Sizewell A

Sizewell A is located on the Suffolk heritage coast. It ended 40 years of safe, compliant electrical generation on 31 December 2006. The site is currently undergoing decommissioning, with a focus firmly on waste management and hazard reduction.

Trawsfynydd

Trawsfynydd is a twin reactor decommissioning power station located on a 15.5 hectare site in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The plant, which became operational in 1965, was the only nuclear power station in the UK to be built inland.

Wylfa

Wylfa is a twin reactor decommissioning power station located on the north coast of the Isle of Anglesey between Amlwch and Holyhead in the northwest of Wales. The site is 20.8 hectares surrounded by grazing agricultural land and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (Tre‘r Gof SSSI). 

Winfrith

Winfrith was opened in 1957, to offer additional space for the UK's civil nuclear research programme. Major progress has been made restoring the Winfrith site, since the start of decommissioning in the 1990s.