Why did they stop production of the fuel rods needed by such stations?
Seems a bit of a strange decision, rather like self mutilation, shooting
oneself in the foot etc.
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When Wylfa opened in 1971, it generated 1000 MWe ?" enough for 40% of
Wales' total electricity needs ?" and was the most powerful nuclear power
station in the world," the NDA said.
"Almost 45 years later, staff gathered to mark the Reactor One switch-off,
which followed three years after Reactor Two closed. The five years of
extended life at Reactor 1 were only possible thanks to an innovative
method of transferring partly used fuel from one reactor to the other,?
the NDA said. The manufacture of Magnox fuel had ceased in 2008.
"Wylfa was originally due to shut in 2010 but the pioneering Inter-Reactor
Fuel Transfer, or IRX process, was endorsed by the regulators and enabled
another five years of operations," the NDA said.
The combined additional revenue from Wylfa's "extra lease of life", as
well as from the Oldbury nuclear power plant's four-year extension,
amounted to about GBP1 billion, which has been used for decommissioning
and clean-up, the NDA said. The final shipment of fuel from the two 217
MWe units at Oldbury to Sellafield is due to take place early next year,
when Wylfa unit 1 will begin its own program of defuelling.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR...-31121501.html
44 years of just churning out those electrons.
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