Nuclear Power Plant

Hunterston B — permanent reactor closure

7 January 2022

North Ayrshire, 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.

Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Nuclear Power Plant
Latitude
55.7200°
Longitude
-4.8900°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

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