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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606418
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606418
Hunterston ‘B’ power station, commissioned in 1976, produces 1288MW from two advanced gas-cooled reactors developed from the original Magnox reactors. It includes a visitor centre which offers tours of the station and displays. From this station and Torness nuclear power station, British Energy Plc generates up to 55% of Scotland’s electricity.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
