We are working to restore the Unionpedia app on the Google Play Store
OutgoingIncoming
🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!
Instagram Facebook X LinkedIn

Wylfa nuclear power station

Index Wylfa nuclear power station

Wylfa nuclear power station (Atomfa'r Wylfa) is a Magnox nuclear power station undergoing decommissioning. [1]

Open in Google Maps

Table of Contents

  1. 58 relations: Advanced boiling water reactor, Anglesey, Anglesey Aluminium, Anti-nuclear movement, Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom, AP1000, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Babcock International, BBC News, Bechtel, Boron, Carbon dioxide, Carbon steel, Cemaes, Central Electricity Generating Board, E.ON UK, Economics of nuclear power plants, English Electric, EPR (nuclear reactor), Government of the United Kingdom, Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, Hitachi, Horizon Nuclear Power, Hour, Hydrogen production, Isle of Anglesey County Council, Jeremy Hunt, Magnox, Magnox (alloy), Magnox Ltd, March 2024 United Kingdom budget, Menai Strait, National Power, Nuclear decommissioning, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Nuclear Electric, Nuclear power in the United Kingdom, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear reactor, NuScale Power, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Oldbury nuclear power station, People Against Wylfa-B, Planning Inspectorate, RWE, Sellafield, Sellafield Ltd, Small modular reactor, Southern Company, Springfields, ... Expand index (8 more) »

  2. 1971 establishments in Wales
  3. Buildings and structures in Anglesey
  4. Energy infrastructure completed in 1971
  5. Former nuclear power stations in Wales
  6. Llanbadrig

Advanced boiling water reactor

The advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) is a Generation III boiling water reactor.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Advanced boiling water reactor

Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Anglesey

Anglesey Aluminium

Anglesey Aluminium Metal Ltd. was a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Kaiser Aluminum.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Anglesey Aluminium

Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Anti-nuclear movement

Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom

The anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom consists of groups who oppose nuclear technologies such as nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom

AP1000

The AP1000 is a nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse Electric Company.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and AP1000

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Babcock International

Babcock International Group plc is a British aerospace, defence and nuclear engineering services company based in London, England.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Babcock International

BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and BBC News

Bechtel

Bechtel Corporation is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California in 1898, and headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Bechtel

Boron

Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Boron

Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Carbon dioxide

Carbon steel

Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Carbon steel

Cemaes

Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust. Wylfa nuclear power station and Cemaes are Llanbadrig.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Cemaes

Central Electricity Generating Board

The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was responsible for electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales in England and Wales from 1958 until privatisation of the electricity industry in the 1990s.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Central Electricity Generating Board

E.ON UK

E.ON UK is a British energy company and one of the largest suppliers of energy in the UK, following its acquisition of Npower.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and E.ON UK

Economics of nuclear power plants

Nuclear power construction costs have varied significantly across the world and in time.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Economics of nuclear power plants

English Electric

The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice ending the fighting of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, made munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and English Electric

EPR (nuclear reactor)

The EPR is a Generation III+ pressurised water reactor design.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and EPR (nuclear reactor)

Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Government of the United Kingdom

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a two-unit, 3,200MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hitachi

() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Hitachi

Horizon Nuclear Power

Horizon Nuclear Power is a British energy company that was expected to build new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Horizon Nuclear Power

Hour

An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds (SI).

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Hour

Hydrogen production

Hydrogen gas is produced by several industrial methods.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Hydrogen production

Isle of Anglesey County Council

The Isle of Anglesey County Council (Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn) is the local authority for the Isle of Anglesey, a principal area with county status in Wales.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Isle of Anglesey County Council

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician who is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2024.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Jeremy Hunt

Magnox

Magnox is a type of nuclear power / production reactor that was designed to run on natural uranium with graphite as the moderator and carbon dioxide gas as the heat exchange coolant.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Magnox

Magnox (alloy)

Magnox is an alloy—mainly of magnesium with small amounts of aluminium and other metals—used in cladding unenriched uranium metal fuel with a non-oxidising covering to contain fission products in nuclear reactors.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Magnox (alloy)

Magnox Ltd

Magnox Ltd was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), responsible for the safe decommissioning of 12 British nuclear sites.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Magnox Ltd

March 2024 United Kingdom budget

The March 2024 United Kingdom budget was delivered to the House of Commons by Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 6 March 2024.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and March 2024 United Kingdom budget

Menai Strait

The Menai Strait is a strait which separates the island of Anglesey from Gwynedd, on the mainland of Wales.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Menai Strait

National Power

National Power was an energy company based in the United Kingdom.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and National Power

Nuclear decommissioning

Nuclear decommissioning is the process leading to the irreversible complete or partial closure of a nuclear facility, usually a nuclear reactor, with the ultimate aim at termination of the operating licence.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear decommissioning

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formerly the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) formed by the Energy Act 2004.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Nuclear Electric

Nuclear Electric was a nuclear power generation company in the United Kingdom.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear Electric

Nuclear power in the United Kingdom

Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generated 16.1% of the country's electricity in 2020.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear power in the United Kingdom

Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant (NPP) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear power plant

Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Nuclear reactor

NuScale Power

NuScale Power Corporation is a publicly traded American company that designs and markets small modular reactors (SMRs).

See Wylfa nuclear power station and NuScale Power

Office for Nuclear Regulation

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is the regulator for the nuclear industry in the United Kingdom.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Office for Nuclear Regulation

Oldbury nuclear power station

Oldbury nuclear power station is a Magnox nuclear power station undergoing decommissioning.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Oldbury nuclear power station

People Against Wylfa-B

People Against Wylfa-B (PAWB, Welsh: Pobl Atal Wylfa-B) is a campaign group established in 1988 to oppose the construction of a second nuclear power plant at Wylfa on the north coast of the island of Anglesey, Wales.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and People Against Wylfa-B

Planning Inspectorate

The Planning Inspectorate for England (sometimes referred to as PINS) is an executive agency of the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government of the United Kingdom Government with responsibility for making decisions and providing recommendations and advice on a range of land use planning-related issues across England.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Planning Inspectorate

RWE

RWE AG is a German multinational energy company headquartered in Essen.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and RWE

Sellafield

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Sellafield

Sellafield Ltd

Sellafield Ltd is a British nuclear decommissioning Site Licence Company (SLC) controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a UK government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Sellafield Ltd

Small modular reactor

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation and then used to power buildings or other commercial operations.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Small modular reactor

Southern Company

Southern Company is an American gas and electric utility holding company based in the Southern United States.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Southern Company

Springfields

Springfields is a nuclear fuel production installation in Salwick, near Preston in Lancashire, England.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Springfields

Taylor Woodrow Construction

Taylor Woodrow Construction, branded as Taylor Woodrow, is a UK-based civil engineering contractor and one of four operating divisions of Vinci Construction UK.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Taylor Woodrow Construction

Trawsfynydd nuclear power station

Trawsfynydd nuclear power station (Atomfa Trawsfynydd) is a former Magnox nuclear power station situated in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. Wylfa nuclear power station and Trawsfynydd nuclear power station are former nuclear power stations in Wales.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Trawsfynydd nuclear power station

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and United Kingdom

Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Wales

Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Watt

Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is an American nuclear power company formed in 1999 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Westinghouse Electric Company

Wind farm

A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Wind farm

Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station

Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station, also known as Wylfa B, was a proposed project to construct a 2,700 MWe nuclear power station with two ABWR reactors in Anglesey, Wales. Wylfa nuclear power station and Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station are buildings and structures in Anglesey.

See Wylfa nuclear power station and Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station

See also

1971 establishments in Wales

Buildings and structures in Anglesey

Energy infrastructure completed in 1971

Former nuclear power stations in Wales

Llanbadrig

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylfa_nuclear_power_station

Also known as Wylfa, Wylfa Newydd, Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Project.

, Taylor Woodrow Construction, Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, United Kingdom, Wales, Watt, Westinghouse Electric Company, Wind farm, Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station.