UK

11 sites

Calder Hall

Civil PowerUK

The worlds first full scale commercial nuclear station, four Magnox gas cooled reactors opened by Queen Elizabeth II in October 19...

Sizewell B

Civil PowerUK

The only pressurized water reactor in Britain, a 1,200 MW Westinghouse design with a distinctive spherical containment on the Suff...

Hinkley Point C

Civil PowerUK

Two EPR reactors under construction in Somerset, the first new British nuclear station in a generation and the most expensive powe...

Hinkley Point B

Civil PowerUK

Twin advanced gas cooled reactors that supplied the grid from 1976 until 2022 and were among the most productive stations in Briti...

Trawsfynydd

Civil PowerUK

The first inland British nuclear station, twin Magnox reactors beside an artificial lake in Snowdonia, Wales, running from 1965 to...

Wylfa

Civil PowerUK

The last and largest Magnox station, on Anglesey in Wales, operating from 1971 to 2012. The follow on Wylfa Newydd project with Hi...

Dounreay

ResearchUK

The fast reactor complex on the Caithness coast of Scotland. The Dounreay Fast Reactor inside its famous steel sphere went critica...

Windscale Piles

Weapons ProductionUK

Two air cooled graphite plutonium production piles at Sellafield, rushed into service to build the British bomb. The October 1957 ...

Sellafield

ReprocessingUK

The sprawling Cumbrian site that began as Windscale plutonium production, then reprocessed fuel in the Magnox and THORP plants, le...

Capenhurst

EnrichmentUK

The British gaseous diffusion plant that produced highly enriched uranium for the weapons program until 1962, then low enriched ci...

JET

FusionUK

The Joint European Torus at Culham, the most successful fusion device to date, which produced a record 69 megajoules of fusion ene...