Oldbury A 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Gas-Cooled Reactor (or GCR)
Model	MAGNOX
Owner	Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Operator	Magnox, Ltd

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 1 May 1962
First Criticality	Tuesday, 1 August 1967
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 7 November 1967
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 31 December 1967
Permanent Shutdown	Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Specifications

Capacity Net	217 MWe
Capacity Gross	230 MWe
Thermal Capacity	730 MWt
Design Net Capacity	300 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1967	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1969	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	212	0	1273.00	0.00	100.00	-	68.60	-
1971	212	8759	1560.45	99.40	86.90	93.40	83.60	76.10
1972	210	8736	1436.45	100.00	76.00	87.70	78.30	76.80
1973	200	8704	1265.20	99.60	63.30	81.80	72.40	75.80
1974	200	8731	1355.00	99.90	74.90	80.50	77.60	76.10
1975	204	8693	1436.50	99.50	78.90	80.20	80.60	76.80
1976	208	8714	1508.50	97.90	80.20	80.20	81.40	77.50
1977	208	8736	1555.00	100.00	85.50	80.90	85.60	78.50
1978	208	8736	1533.50	100.00	84.50	81.30	84.40	79.20
1979	208	8736	1592.00	100.00	88.00	82.00	87.60	80.00
1980	208	8736	1648.00	100.00	86.20	82.40	90.70	81.00
1981	208	8904	1688.00	100.00	85.50	82.60	91.10	81.90
1982	208	8736	1717.00	100.00	86.00	82.90	94.50	82.80
1983	217	8566	1506.50	98.00	77.40	82.50	79.50	82.60
1984	217	8736	1520.50	100.00	77.70	82.20	80.20	82.40
1985	217	8701	1661.05	99.60	83.20	82.20	87.60	82.80
1986	217	8650	1654.28	99.00	85.00	82.40	87.30	83.00
1987	217	8904	1611.46	100.00	82.90	82.40	83.40	83.00
1988	217	8530	1687.60	97.60	86.00	82.60	89.00	83.40
1989	217	8644	1457.59	99.00	82.00	82.60	76.90	83.00
1990	217	8713	1457.53	99.70	76.10	82.30	76.90	82.70
1991	217	8736	1592.09	100.00	84.30	82.40	84.00	82.80
1992	217	8857	1706.07	99.50	88.60	82.60	88.30	83.00
1993	217	8736	1770.63	100.00	92.50	83.10	93.40	83.50
1994	217	8318	1743.40	95.20	91.60	83.40	92.00	83.80
1995	217	7861	1570.50	89.70	82.60	83.40	82.60	83.80
1996	217	7870	1548.78	89.60	81.20	83.30	81.20	83.70
1997	217	8722	1693.07	99.60	89.10	83.50	89.10	83.90
1998	217	7617	1532.28	87.00	80.60	83.40	80.60	83.80
1999	217	8420	1774.33	96.10	93.20	83.70	93.30	84.10
2000	217	7928	1641.41	90.30	86.10	83.80	86.10	84.20
2001	217	7668	1621.29	87.50	85.30	83.90	85.30	84.20
2002	217	8215	1714.99	93.80	90.10	84.00	90.20	84.40
2003	217	7438	1513.70	84.90	79.60	83.90	79.60	84.20
2004	217	3430	723.83	39.00	38.00	82.60	38.00	82.90
2005	217	3997	744.57	45.60	39.20	81.40	39.20	81.70
2006	217	5628	1106.00	64.20	58.20	80.70	58.20	81.00
2007	217	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	78.60	0.00	78.80
2008	217	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	76.50	0.00	76.80
2009	217	4739	842.32	54.10	44.30	75.70	44.30	76.00
2010	217	8760	1728.35	100.00	90.90	76.10	90.90	76.30
2011	217	7176	1338.85	81.90	70.40	75.90	70.40	76.20
2012	217	1427	224.31	99.10	71.80	75.90	71.80	76.20