New UK nuclear plant sites named
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Ministers have announced plans for the next generation of UK nuclear plants.
The government confirmed a list of eight sites deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
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The government confirmed a list of eight sites deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
More info at the link
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EclecticBadger
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Now whilst it is probably pie in the sky that successive governments would be able to maintain a clear-up policy for the next 89 years, I don't think building a new one on the same site and doubling the clean-up problem is a good solution either.
If you take Wylfa which has had a Magnox reactor since 1971 its planned de-commission may be 2012, but final site clearance for the existing reactor is not expected until 2101.
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