Electricity generation ends at Hunterston B today
Hunterston B, in North Ayrshire, Soctland, UK, is ending generation after almost 46 years.
Hunterston B, Reactor 3 Pile Cap, Nov 2021. Reactor 4 will join it in defuelling.
© EDFReactor 4 at the EDF-run site will be shut down by Station Director, Paul Forrest, at midday today; 45 years, and 11 months after the station started producing electricity.
Forrest notes, ‘[Since 1976] it has produced almost 300TWh of zero-carbon electricity, enough to power every home in Scotland for 31 years.’
It is expected that defueling at Hunterston B will take around three years. Under the terms of a contract agreed with UK Government in June 2021, EDF will carry out defueling at all seven of the UK’s Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) stations before the sites are transferred to the NDA for its subsidiary Magnox to continue with decommissioning.
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