Trawsfynydd
- Country: UK
- Role: Civil Power
- Status: Decommissioning
- Year: 1965
Overview
The first inland British nuclear station, twin Magnox reactors beside an artificial lake in Snowdonia, Wales, running from 1965 to 1991. The brutalist reactor towers are being dismantled in stages, a testbed for remote demolition methods reused across the UK estate.
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