Nuclear Power Plant

Dungeness B — permanent reactor closure

7 June 2021

Kent, United Kingdom

No radiological release

What happened

Units 1 and 2 permanently ceased commercial operation. This is a reactor closure, not a nuclear accident or an unplanned outage. Generation had stopped in 2018; the operator declared in 2021 that the station would not restart.

Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Nuclear Power Plant
Latitude
50.9100°
Longitude
0.9600°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. PRIS permanent-shutdown reactor databaseInternational Atomic Energy Agency · Incident reporting