The Worlds oldest Nuclear Power Station

Shut down today, and as the Crow flies it is only around 30 Miles from Cardiff. Oldbury Power Station which is the station i have been working at for 26 yeayars shut down Reactor one at 11am for the very last time. It is sad for me knowing Oldbury will never produce Electricity again. I will never Fuel those Reactors again just take the Fuel out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17189845

Saw it on the news this morning before work Steve, Sad day for you mate.Keep your chin up chief

Just stick some ambrosia in there!! That will sort it!!

Saw it on the news this morning before work Steve, Sad day for you mate.Keep your chin up chief

Was it on the main news Lee or local. I havent seen it

I never new we had a nuclear powerstation so close I always thought there was only one nuclear powerstation in wales, the one up north!

Saw it on the news this morning before work Steve, Sad day for you mate.Keep your chin up chief

Was it on the main news Lee or local. I havent seen it

Breakfast on bbc had some blond geordie bird filming from there.

Saw it on the news this morning before work Steve, Sad day for you mate.Keep your chin up chief

Was it on the main news Lee or local. I havent seen it

Cant remember if it was daybreak news bulletin or BBC Breakfast news bulletin this morning Steve Sorry mate.
I flick through the channels in the morning when there is a crap link on i go through bbc1,itv,sky news and sky sports news.

I never new we had a nuclear powerstation so close I always thought there was only one nuclear powerstation in wales, the one up north!

You are correct there is only one operating Nuclear Power Station working in Wales Wylfa, but you are forgetting we are close to the English border and Oldbury is in England. But to make you feel better there is a working Reactor at Hinkley Somerset. And you can see that from Wales

I never new we had a nuclear powerstation so close I always thought there was only one nuclear powerstation in wales, the one up north!

You are correct there is only one operating Nuclear Power Station working in Wales Wylfa, but you are forgetting we are close to the English border and Oldbury is in England. But to make you feel better there is a working Reactor at Hinkley Somerset. And you can see that from Wales

Ahh "DUHR" cheers for puttin me right

"The main reactor building will not be
pulled down until about 2100 when the
radioactive levels in the building become
safe". Amazing how long its gunna take to fully decomission the place!

what about trawsfinidd?

"The main reactor building will not be
pulled down until about 2100 when the
radioactive levels in the building become
safe". Amazing how long its gunna take to fully decomission the place!

The Fuel Elements will take a few years to take out and reprossed as there are 50.000 of them. Once this has been achieved that would account for 99.9% of all activity that has been removed from Oldbury.
The Reactors that are made out of Graphite will then be left empty and can be left in safe storage, And that is by far the best way. They wont be dangerous or will leak, and they wont be that active in terms of what they are now.
The new Reactors being built are smaller but more Efficient and our experience at decommissioning are taken into account of how the new ones are built.

what about trawsfynydd?

Closed late 80s Chief. It is more or less now in safe storage with the turbine hall gone the Ponds Building gone, The waste stores i believe are gone. The building height reduced.

Under construction

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And that is the core where the Fuel element fit into the Channels

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"The main reactor building will not be
pulled down until about 2100 when the
radioactive levels in the building become
safe". Amazing how long its gunna take to fully decomission the place!

The Fuel Elements will take a few years to take out and reprossed as there are 50.000 of them. Once this has been achieved that would account for 99.9% of all activity that has been removed from Oldbury.
The Reactors that are made out of Graphite will then be left empty and can be left in safe storage, And that is by far the best way. They wont be dangerous or will leak, and they wont be that active in terms of what they are now.
The new Reactors being built are smaller but more Efficient and our experience at decommissioning are taken into account of how the new ones are built.

Must have been one hell of an intresting fascinating place to work at all them years mate, I've watched quite a few programs about the science behind nuclear energy. And although I can never quite understand what its all about, I still find it truly amazing how we humans can produce and control somthing so powerfull as nuclear energy

"The main reactor building will not be
pulled down until about 2100 when the
radioactive levels in the building become
safe". Amazing how long its gunna take to fully decomission the place!

The Fuel Elements will take a few years to take out and reprossed as there are 50.000 of them. Once this has been achieved that would account for 99.9% of all activity that has been removed from Oldbury.
The Reactors that are made out of Graphite will then be left empty and can be left in safe storage, And that is by far the best way. They wont be dangerous or will leak, and they wont be that active in terms of what they are now.
The new Reactors being built are smaller but more Efficient and our experience at decommissioning are taken into account of how the new ones are built.

Must have been one hell of an intresting fascinating place to work at all them years mate, I've watched quite a few programs about the science behind nuclear energy. And although I can never quite understand what its all about, I still find it truly amazing how we humans can produce and control somthing so powerfull as nuclear energy

It has been different mate. Do a very wide range of jobs at Oldbury so its never really dull. But my Job will change massive now. But i hope the decommissioning will see me out till retirement

Shut down today, and as the Crow flies it is only around 30 Miles from Cardiff. Oldbury Power Station which is the station i have been working at for 26 yeayars shut down Reactor one at 11am for the very last time. It is sad for me knowing Oldbury will never produce Electricity again. I will never Fuel those Reactors again just take the Fuel out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17189845

Thanks for that Steve............

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Shut down today, and as the Crow flies it is only around 30 Miles from Cardiff. Oldbury Power Station which is the station i have been working at for 26 yeayars shut down Reactor one at 11am for the very last time. It is sad for me knowing Oldbury will never produce Electricity again. I will never Fuel those Reactors again just take the Fuel out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17189845

Thanks for that Steve............

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I am also writing up a thread on the Steam Trains of devon if you are interested

Shut down today, and as the Crow flies it is only around 30 Miles from Cardiff. Oldbury Power Station which is the station i have been working at for 26 yeayars shut down Reactor one at 11am for the very last time. It is sad for me knowing Oldbury will never produce Electricity again. I will never Fuel those Reactors again just take the Fuel out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17189845

Thanks for that Steve............

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I am also writing up a thread on the Steam Trains of devon if you are interested

Some of them must've ended up at the barry Island Locomotive Scrapyard?

A place from which they never saw their loved ones again

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what about trawsfynydd?

Closed late 80s Chief. It is more or less now in safe storage with the turbine hall gone the Ponds Building gone, The waste stores i believe are gone. The building height reduced.

Bloody hell i was onlt driving past it the other day, didn't realise it was decomissioned.

These threads rock!

Everyone is saying that Oldbury is the oldest Nuclear power station and has run for an impressive 44 yrs but this is only the oldest current running station.Surely the oldest and longest running station was the Calder Hall station in Cumberland which was the first to be built in the UK (1956) and was also the longest running with some 47 yrs service (built in 1956 and shut in 2003).
If you think that's imprerssive then next year,the Oyster Creek station in New Jersey will also have been running for 44 yrs and will eventually complete some 60 yrs service as its not due for closure till 2029.

Everyone is saying that Oldbury is the oldest Nuclear power station and has run for an impressive 44 yrs but this is only the oldest current running station.Surely the oldest and longest running station was the Calder Hall station in Cumberland which was the first to be built in the UK (1956) and was also the longest running with some 47 yrs service (built in 1956 and shut in 2003).
If you think that's imprerssive then next year,the Oyster Creek station in New Jersey will also have been running for 44 yrs and will eventually complete some 60 yrs service as its not due for closure till 2029.

Oldest running reactor for which it is now not. My old man worked at Oldbury from1967 to around 94 and he is still the only living person to enter a reactor after it had started to help remove a jack that was left there and was causing the reactor to trip. True story that

Everyone is saying that Oldbury is the oldest Nuclear power station and has run for an impressive 44 yrs but this is only the oldest current running station.Surely the oldest and longest running station was the Calder Hall station in Cumberland which was the first to be built in the UK (1956) and was also the longest running with some 47 yrs service (built in 1956 and shut in 2003).
If you think that's imprerssive then next year,the Oyster Creek station in New Jersey will also have been running for 44 yrs and will eventually complete some 60 yrs service as its not due for closure till 2029.

Oldest running reactor for which it is now not. My old man worked at Oldbury from1967 to around 94 and he is still the only living person to enter a reactor after it had started to help remove a jack that was left there and was causing the reactor to trip. True story that

Them Jacks get everywhere.

Everyone is saying that Oldbury is the oldest Nuclear power station and has run for an impressive 44 yrs but this is only the oldest current running station.Surely the oldest and longest running station was the Calder Hall station in Cumberland which was the first to be built in the UK (1956) and was also the longest running with some 47 yrs service (built in 1956 and shut in 2003).
If you think that's imprerssive then next year,the Oyster Creek station in New Jersey will also have been running for 44 yrs and will eventually complete some 60 yrs service as its not due for closure till 2029.

Oldest running reactor for which it is now not. My old man worked at Oldbury from1967 to around 94 and he is still the only living person to enter a reactor after it had started to help remove a jack that was left there and was causing the reactor to trip. True story that

Them Jacks get everywhere.