Hinkley Point A Power Station, Somerset

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Hinkley Point A Power Station is one of two nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point in Somerset 8 miles away from Bridgewater. It is located on the south shore of the Bristol Channel from which it draws cooling water. Construction on the power station began in 1957 and it began operating in 1965. It was one of eleven Magnox Power Stations built and is located on a 26 Hectare Site. The power station, which is currently being decommissioned, had twin Magnox reactors, each supplying steam to a turbine alternator set which was designed to produce 500 MWe but, after de-rating of the reactor power output due to corrosion concerns, producing 221 MWe. Each Magnox reactor had 4,500 fuel channels, 8 fuel elements per channel & 127 Control rods. The reactors used natural uranium as fuel and Carbon dioxide as coolant. In its entire lifetime it produced 103 TWh. The area of land to the West of the power station is the proposed site for Hinkley Point C. #Bridgewater #Bristol #Channel #Hinkley #Magnox #nuclear #Point #power #Somerset #station #TRM_DA