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Oldbury

Oldbury is one of the eleven sites that could potentially host a new nuclear station included on the Government’s list published on 15th April 2009.

Oldbury is the site of two operating Magnox Reactors, owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), in Gloucestershire. The reactors had been expected to close in December 2008, but the company operating them, Energy Solutions, has been granted a life extension of around two years from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate

Oldbury's Reactor 2 returned from its statutory maintenance outage on 22 May 2009 and was synchronised with the national grid - five years to-the-day since the last time both Oldbury's reactors operated together.

Concerns have been expressed about the levels of cancer in Chepstow and Caldicott  which lie on the other side of the Severn Estuary and downstream.

A consortium of Germany’s E.On and RWE was successful in its bid  to buy land adjacent to the Magnoc reactors from the NDA. The consortium also bought land at Wylfa on Anglesey .E.On and RWE say they will now push ahead with plans to develop at least 6GW of new nuclear capacity in the UK.

Eon held three information drop-in sessions around Oldbury in March 2009.
 

Local Group: Shut Oldbury Campaign (shared website with Stop Hinkley Expansion)

Last Updated 9 June 2009

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