The defuelling of the first reactor at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in Scotland has been completed with work due to start shortly on the station’s second reactor.
Owner and operator EDF Energy said Hunterston B1, a 490-MW AGR, was defuelled “on time and on budget” in 16 months, marking a milestone in the first phase of decommissioning the UK’s fleet of 14 advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear power plants at seven sites.
Hunterston B1 was shut down permanently in November 2021 and Hunterston B2 in January 2022.