Hunterston B nuclear power station

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The Hunterston B AGR reactor building is on the left. On the right are the old Hunterston A twin Magnox reactor buildings, now being decommissioned.
The Hunterston B AGR reactor building is on the left. On the right are the old Hunterston A twin Magnox reactor buildings, now being decommissioned.

Hunterston B Power Station is a nuclear power station south of Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland. British Energy operates it.

It started generating electricity on the 6th February 1976 and is currently scheduled to be decommissioned in 2011.

The graphite moderator core in each of the twin AGR reactors at Hunterston B has recently developed structural problems in the form of cracking of the bricks.[1]

References:

  1. ^ Large and Associates. Brief Review of the Documents Relating to the Graphite Moderator Cores at Hinkley Point B and Other Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors, R3154 5 July 2006

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