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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019529
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019529
The first civilian nuclear power station in the country: a 360 megawatt plant originally designed to supply approximately a quarter of the total electricity demand in the SSEB area. The station comprises two natural uranium-fuelled, graphite-moderate, gas cooled 'MAGNOX' reactors, together with associated steam-raising units, situated adjacent to a turbine house and control room. Uniquely, the reactors here were loaded and unloaded from below, and as a result are perched high above ground level, in gigantic but elegant curtain-walled, steel-framed blocks. The station was closed in 1990. (Figs. 4.65, 4.66).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
