Operational failure
Nuclear Power Plant
Dungeness B — permanent reactor closure
7 June 2021
Kent, United Kingdom
Incident location
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50.9100, 0.9600
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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.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Current temperature
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- Latitude
- 50.9100°
- Longitude
- 0.9600°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.