More than 700kg of explosives have been used in the first stage demolition of four concrete plinths that bore the weight of two turbo generator units weighing 605 tonnes each at the UK’s Sizewell A NPP. Sizewell A’s two 210 MWe Magnox gas-cooled reactors operated from 1966 until 2006. Defuelling began in 2009 and the fuel was placed in the site’s used fuel storage ponds before being packaged in transport containers for shipment to the Sellafield site in Cumbria for … read more »

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