UK’s Oldbury nuclear station to shut down today

Magnox-owned Oldbury nuclear station in the UK will shut down today after 45 years of service.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox agreed that continuing operations on the site would no longer be economically viable.

Reactor 2 was shut down last year and Reactor 1 is scheduled to be switched off at 11am (GMT), today, reports BBC news.

Located on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, the facility was due to close 2008 and again in June 2011, but managers of the site said that there would be enough fuel to operate one of the plant's two reactors beyond that date.

Although welcomed by campaigners, the decommissioning of Oldbury will not put an end to nuclear power generation at the site. In June last year, it was one of eight sites deemed suitable for new nuclear power stations by 2025.

Horizon Nuclear Power is currently moving forward with its plans to a station next to Oldbury and at the Shepperdine site in South Gloucestershire.

Oldbury's decommissioning process will begin over the next three years, with remaining fuel removed and reprocessed. Hazardous materials will then be removed from the site before the station's buildings are demolished. However, the main reactor will not be pulled down until radiation levels in the building become safe, which is not expected to be until around the year 2100.

Caption: Oldbury nuclear power station has been operating for 45 years on the banks of the River Severn

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Natural History Museum of Utah

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Rising on the southeastern quadrant of the University of Utah campus, the Natural History Museum of Utah is covered in a variegated pattern of copper panels that roots the building in the surrounding mountainous landscape. It is literally built into a footfhill slope of the Wasatch Mountain Range. The natural analogies extend to the "canyon," an internal public space created by the fissure of three structural bays in plan. Distant views are framed by selectively placed glass walls. Ennead Architects' partners Todd Schliemann and Don Weinreich answered some questions about their design.

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Dominion Virginia Power to build $1bn natural gas-fired power station

Dominion Virginia Power has unveiled plans to invest more than $1bn to build a combined-cycle, natural gas-fired power station in Virginia, the US.

The company will seek approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission later this year to build the plant on a 205-acre site.

Dominion chairman, president and CEO Thomas Farrell II said the Brunswick County site is an ideal location to generate electricity to serve Southside Virginia and Hampton Roads, and will help the company close the gap of 4,000MW in additional peak demand expected within the next decade.

"We expect this new power station to operate very efficiently and reduce the amount of power that we have to import from outside the Commonwealth," said Farrell.

"Building this station also is the best, most cost-effective and reliable way to meet the latest federal clean-air standards."

The proposed plant with an estimated generating capacity of 1,300MW will produce enough electricity to meet the power needs of 325,000 households in the region.

It will also replace the electricity generated by coal units at two eastern Virginia stations that are planned to be retired.

The company has already received the necessary conditional use permits from the Brunswick County Board of Supervisors to build the station and has applied to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for the permit.

The station is scheduled be complete by 2016.

Image : The output from the 1,300MW natural gas-fired power station will replace the electricity generated by coal units at two eastern Virginia stations. Credit: Timo Newton-Syms

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SQUARE nudes by Carsten Witte

  

 

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