Magnox

"After looking at different scenarios, we made the economic decision to end generation in February 2012," said a spokeswoman for Magnox, which is owned by U.S. nuclear services company Energy Solutions.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

These hold the leftovers from the nation's first civil reactor programme, a series of reactors known as Magnox plants.

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

These hold the leftovers from the nation's first civil reactor programme, a series of reactors known as Magnox plants.

EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2009

These hold the leftovers from the nation's first civil reactor programme, a series of reactors known as Magnox plants.

The Guardian World News 2009

Without full planning permission it was already clearing the land for a third reactor to join the decades-old Hinkley Point A (built by Magnox) and Hinkley Point B (purchased by EDF from British Energy), reviving a scheme which had been explored and abandoned as unviable over twenty years ago.

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

Magnox reactors that have high decommissioning waste volumes, decommissioning costs can reach $1.8 billion per reactor.

Earth Policy Institute: The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power 2008

The presence of U-236 in particular means that most reprocessed uranium can be recycled only once - the main exception being in the UK with AGR fuel made from recycled Magnox uranium being reprocessed.

Uranium enrichment 2009

For instance, some 16,000 tonnes of RepU from Magnox reactors [2] in UK has been used to make about 1650 tonnes of enriched AGR fuel, via two enrichment plants.

Uranium enrichment 2009

The AGR was developed from the Magnox reactor, also graphite-moderated and CO2-cooled, and two of these are still operating in the UK.

Nuclear power reactor 2009

For instance, the Berkeley nuclear power station (2 x 138 MWe, Magnox reactors) closed for economic reasons in 1989 after 27 years of operation and defuelling was completed in 1992.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities 2009