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Country at risk to have just one station operational beyond 2030 An all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on nuclear energy in the UK parliament has called on UK policy makers to “take decisions urgently in this parliament” to restore UK nuclear capacity to at least 10 GW based on “deployable technologies” by the early 2030s.

The APPG said in a new report supported by the UK Nuclear Industry Association that most of the UK’s commercial reactor units will retire by March 2024 with Sizewell B being the only station of the current fleet still operating in the next decade.

Without new investment, the UK will lose critical capabilities and its position as “an international leader” in nuclear technology, the report warned.

Date: Thursday, 01 July 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/parliament-group-urges-government-to-support-nuclear-capacity-replacement-in-new-report-6-3-2021

Defuelling of reactors scheduled to begin no later than July 2022 The two Hinkley Point B reactors will shut down within the next two years. Courtesy EDF Energy. EDF Energy has confirmed it will begin shutting down the two gas-cooled reactors at Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in southwest England within the next two years, earlier than scheduled.

The defueling of the two plants, Hinkley Point B-1 and Hinkley Point B-2, will begin no later than July 2022, according to the French energy group.

The shutdown was scheduled for 2023, but cracks were discovered in the graphite core of the reactor. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hinkley Point B-1 began commercial operation in October 1978 and Hinkley Point B-2 in September 1976.

Matt Sykes, the managing director of EDF Generation, said an inspection of Hinkley Point B’s graphite blocks revealed they were “in exactly the sort of condition” expected after 40 years of generating electricity. He said running a nuclear power plant this efficiently for over 40 years leads to changes in the reactors.

Date: Saturday, 21 November 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/edf-energy-announces-early-shutdown-of-two-units-at-hinkley-point-b-11-5-2020

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched a consultation until 14 September on draft regulations that aim to enable a domestic nuclear safeguards regime following the UK's withdrawal from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) as part of its departure from the European Union.

Date: Thursday, 12 July 2018
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-s-post-Brexit-nuclear-plans-face-scrutiny