10 May (NucNet): UK nuclear regulators have launched a public consultation into proposals for the decommissioning of the two-unit Wylfa nuclear power plant on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.
Wylfa obtained consent to decommission the Magnox plant in March 2009 when it was expected operations would cease within five years.
However, following extended electricity generation at the site, decommissioning is not now expected to start until around the end of 2014 at the earliest, by which time the existing consent will have expired.
Unit 2 at Wylfa was shut down in April 2012 because of limited fuel stocks, following the final shipment of Magnox fuel – which is no longer manufactured – to the site in 2011.
Unit 1, the UK’s last remaining commercially operational Magnox reactor unit, was given permission to continue to generate electricity until September 2014, almost four years beyond its original closure date.
Details of the condsultation, which will last three months, are online:
www.hse.gov.uk/consult/condocs/cdwylfa/index.htm
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