Proposals for dismantling and decommissioning the Dungeness B nuclear power station are being prepared and there’s chance to have a say on the plans before they are officially submitted.
EDF, which runs the site, has started a consultation process into its proposals which need to be approved by the Office of Nuclear Regulation before decommissioning can start.
Dungeness B was the first Advanced Gas-cooled reactor to begin construction in the UK, 60 years ago. It began generating electricity in 1983.
Defueling the former power station began in 2021. EDF employs 550 full-time staff at Dungeness plus 200 contractors.
Consultation into the site’s future runs until 28 April, with a community event in Lydd at the Community Hall on Saturday 28 March 11am to 4pm.
You can read more about the plans here.
Decommissioning Dungeness B is unlikely to start until 2030.
Work has already started on Dungeness A, which closed in 2006. The 26-metre high turbine hall has been demolished and work is taking place to remove eight large boiler units, each weighing around 800 tonnes.
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It’s a great shame that we can’t use all the infrastructure to provide another nuclear power plant here, so that we are less vulnerable to world events and less reliant on fossil fuels.
Its probably all part of the nutty plan to destroy this countries infrastructure. Better stock up with lots of candles.
Dungeness C, which was going to be built between Dungeness B and the KV switch house was Abandoned due to an ecological fault found when tests were carried out on the land, there was then talk of locating it in front of Dungeness A, but nothing materilsed in the end