Hunterston B (Image: EDF Energy) The Hunterston B plant in Scotland comprises two 490 MWe AGR reactors - Reactors 3 and 4. Reactor 3 came online for the first time in February 1976, was initially ...

Defuelling is the first stage of the nuclear decommissioning process. Hunterston B (Image: EDF Energy) The Hunterston B plant in Scotland comprises two 490 MWe AGR reactors - Reactors 3 and 4. Reactor ...

Advanced Gas-cooled reactors (AGR’s) are a British thermal reactor design developed in the early 1960s as a successor to the Magnox reactor. The fuel assemblies are cooled using Carbon dioxide, with ...

Several of the UK’s second generation Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) power stations are due to close in the next few years. Graphite is a moderator and it is fundamental to the nuclear ...

EDF said it’s 45-year experience in operating AGR technology makes it the best candidate to defuel the reactors. The spent fuel is packaged into a spent fuel flask and transported by rail to ...

to supply fuel to Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGR) from its Springfields fuel fabrication facility. The contract extension enables NGL to continue delivering clean, secure power generation from ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first of the UK’s seven advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power stations has been emptied of fuel ...

The agreement means Cavendish Nuclear will continue to provide fuel route and other services for EDF Energy’s seven advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) for the remainder of their operating lives ...

In March 1963, The Engineer was marking the commissioning of a notable part of Britain’s pioneering role in the history of nuclear power: the Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor, the forerunner for ...

Westinghouse is a leading supplier of nuclear fuel, providing a uniquely diversified portfolio in the industry across nuclear reactor types, including PWR, BWR, AGR, and VVER. The company delivers ...

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - EDF's British subsidiary announced on Thursday it expected to increase the average lifetime of its advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) stations in Britain by eight years.