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Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station From The Runway
The four reactor buildings as viewed from a stretch of one of RAF Annan's former runways (upon which the complex also resides).
Image: © James T M Towill
Taken: 16 Feb 2014
0.09 miles
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Chapelcross Power Station
Chapelcross was the first nuclear power station in Scotland, generating electricity from 1959 to June 2004. The site is undergoing decommissioning with a final site clearance target date of 2085. The cooling towers were demolished on 20th May 2007. Lynne Kirton took a series of shots of the demolition http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/438748 and more information about the site including a video of the demolition of the cooling towers can be found at this website http://www.nda.gov.uk/sites/chapelcross/
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 4 Nov 2012
0.09 miles
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Chapelcross Power Station
Chapelcross, Scotland's first commercial nuclear power station, is now in the early stages of decommissioning. Building began in 1955 and it began generating electricity in February 1959. It was a four-reactor station with eight 30-MW turbines. At full power it produced enough electricity to supply every home in South West Scotland, the Borders and Cumbria. Power generation ceased in 2004 after 45 years of successful operation. Magnox North is under contract to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to decommission Chapelcross, and the first flask, with 116 elements, left on 14 April 2009 for reprocessing at Sellafield, leaving 37959 to go. See Lynne Kirton's series of pictures of the demolition of the four cooling towers in May 2007
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Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 26 Apr 2009
0.09 miles
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Chapelcross Power Station
Chapelcross was the first nuclear power station in Scotland, generating electricity from 1959 to June 2004. The site is undergoing decommissioning with a final site clearance target date of 2085. The cooling towers were demolished on 20th May 2007. Lynne Kirton took a series of shots of the demolition http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/438748 and more information about the site including a video of the demolition of the cooling towers can be found at this website http://www.nda.gov.uk/sites/chapelcross/
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 4 Nov 2012
0.10 miles
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Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station - View from the A75
Located near Annan in Dumfriesshire, Chapelcross is one of the oldest nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom, and the first in Scotland. Operational since 1959, this was originally a prototype station, which comprises four 50 megawatt Magnox reactors and a processing plant. The Magnox reactors, so called because magnesium alloy was used to contain the fuel rods, were designed to produce weapons-grade plutonium for the military, as well as power for the civilian market.
With 450 staff, Chapelcross is one of the largest employers in Dumfries and Galloway and is operated by the government-owned nuclear contractor BNFL. Although its operational licence was extended until 2006 (in 1996), the discovery of a 40-year-old 20 cm 'hairline crack' in one of the four heat exchangers caused the plant to close for six months in 1998. A further incident occurred in 2001 when radioactive fuel rods fell down a shaft and, later, the unrelated discovery that some of the graphite moderators in the reactor core were warped. Reports of high levels of leukaemia in the area (1987) have been challenged in later studies.
The viability of the station was dependent on the continued export of electricity to England, but falling electricity prices and operational problems meant Chapelcross generated its last electricity in June 2004. A lengthy decommissioning process will follow.
Image: © Tinkerbell
Taken: 25 Feb 2006
0.10 miles
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Chapelcross Power Station
This was viewed across farmland from the B722. Chapelcross was the first nuclear power station in Scotland, generating electricity from 1959 to June 2004. The site is undergoing decommissioning with a final site clearance target date of 2085. The cooling towers were demolished on 20th May 2007. Lynne Kirton took a series of shots of the demolition http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/438748 and more information about the site including a video of the demolition of the cooling towers can be found at this website http://www.nda.gov.uk/sites/chapelcross/
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 4 Nov 2012
0.11 miles
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Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station
Chapelcross, Scotland's first commercial nuclear power station, is now in the early stages of decommissioning. Building began in 1955 and it began generating electricity in February 1959. It was a four-reactor station with eight 30 MW turbines. At full power it produced enough electricity to supply every home in South West Scotland, the Borders and Cumbria. Power generation ceased in 2004 after 45 years of successful operation. Magnox North is under contract to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to decommission Chapelcross, and the first flask, with 116 elements, left on 14 April 2009 for reprocessing at Sellafield, leaving 37959 to go. See Lynne Kirton's series of pictures of the demolition of the four cooling towers in May 2007
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Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 26 Apr 2009
0.11 miles
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Disused Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station: aerial 2016
Image: © Chris
Taken: 15 Aug 2016
0.13 miles
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Four in a Block
Chapelcross Power Station. I hadn't been this way for years and wondered what had happened to the cooling towers. Now I know!
Image: © Ian Paterson
Taken: 25 Feb 2008
0.14 miles
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Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station - Main Entrance
A view of the main site entrance.
Image: © James T M Towill
Taken: 16 Feb 2014
0.14 miles