Inside a huge, cathedral-like space at the Heysham 1 power station, Lancashire, there are not just one but two vast nuclear reactors beneath our feet. Together they can generate 2.3 gigawatts of electricity – enough to power four million homes for a year. From where Ian Pilton, the station’s plant manager, is speaking, 324 fuel channels reach down into the reactor core. It is cooled using carbon dioxide gas, which leaves at a temperature of 650 degrees celsius and is … read more »
The post Heysham appeared first on No2NuclearPower.
