Dungeness B
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has issued an improvement notice to EDF Energy after an employee suffered an electric shock from a portable heater at Dungeness B power station in Kent
Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, Tom Greatrex says nuclear station closures threaten jobs and climate goals without new investment
The station has been in an extended outage since September 2018
A reactor and generation turbine have been shut down for planned maintenance at Dungeness B nuclear power station. The station, which is located on the Dungeness headland in the south east of Kent, closed its unit 22 at 19.00 yesterday, EDF Energy said. Earlier this year EDF Energy announced the power station’s life extension to […]
The Dungeness B nuclear power station will continue to generate electricity until at least 2028, EDF Energy announced today. That’s an extension of 10 years, which means the Kent plant will continue producing enough low carbon electricity to power around 1.5 million homes every year. EDF Energy said the decision has been made possible by […]
Power supplier EDF Energy has rebuffed claims one of its nuclear plants may have been “unsafe” while it was updating its flood defences while reactors were switched off last May. For two months in 2013, the firm shut down the nuclear reactors at Dungeness B, located on Romney Marsh in Kent on the south east coast of […]