WYLFA NUCLEAR POWER STATION

Site Details

NPRN
306329
Map Reference
SH39SE
Grid Reference
SH35259392
Unitary (Local) Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Old County
Anglesey
Community
Llanbadrig
Type of Site
NUCLEAR POWER STATION
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
Post Medieval

Site Description

The Central Electricity Generating Board's Magnox power station at Wylfa, was built in 1963 and designed to fit in with the landscape (a comprehensive landscaping scheme was was undertaken in which 100ft high artificial hills were constructed using excavated material). The main station building consisted of two reactor blocks linked by a common services building and the central control room. The fuelling and servicing machines were interchangeable between the reactors. The station used a dry store in which the irradiated fuel was stacked in nests of tubes filled with dry CO2 externally cooled by air. It had a capacity of 840 MW, and was the eighth and last first-generation Magnox station to be built by the CEGB. The station was officially opened in May 1972. Currently (2009) the station is still operational.

Reference: COI photographs and notes, dated c. 1972.