Dungeness A 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 July 1960
First Criticality	Tuesday, 1 June 1965
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 21 September 1965
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 28 October 1965
Permanent Shutdown	Sunday, 31 December 2006

Specifications

Capacity Net	225 MWe
Capacity Gross	230 MWe
Thermal Capacity	840 MWt
Design Net Capacity	275 MWe

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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 (%)
1965	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1967	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1969	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	289	0	1588.00	0.00	62.90	-	62.70	-
1971	235	8809	1703.50	100.00	82.30	-	82.30	-
1972	285	8736	1709.45	100.00	68.60	-	68.70	-
1973	205	8736	1605.50	100.00	89.00	-	89.60	-
1974	205	8672	1687.00	99.30	93.80	77.60	94.20	77.70
1975	205	8736	1648.50	100.00	92.00	79.60	92.00	79.80
1976	205	8867	1530.50	99.60	83.80	80.20	83.80	80.30
1977	205	8736	1409.50	100.00	78.90	80.00	78.70	80.10
1978	205	8731	1333.50	99.90	74.70	79.50	74.50	79.50
1979	205	6905	584.50	79.00	39.50	75.80	32.60	75.30
1980	205	540	34.50	6.20	2.10	69.70	1.90	69.20
1981	205	840	60.00	9.40	2.40	64.40	3.30	64.00
1982	205	8666	1295.00	99.20	72.30	65.00	72.30	64.60
1983	205	8736	1481.00	100.00	82.40	66.10	82.70	65.80
1984	205	8736	1457.00	100.00	80.90	67.10	81.40	66.80
1985	212	8716	1668.17	99.80	90.60	68.50	90.10	68.20
1986	212	8678	1313.18	99.30	70.20	68.60	70.90	68.30
1987	212	8796	1527.39	98.80	81.30	69.30	80.90	69.00
1988	212	8568	1042.38	98.10	61.70	68.90	56.30	68.40
1989	212	8736	1101.50	100.00	59.40	68.40	59.50	67.90
1990	212	8711	1497.66	99.70	81.00	69.00	80.90	68.50
1991	212	8695	1600.20	99.50	90.60	70.00	86.40	69.30
1992	220	8905	1872.83	100.00	95.90	71.10	98.20	70.60
1993	220	8697	1609.69	99.60	83.40	71.60	83.80	71.20
1994	220	8101	1770.33	92.70	92.00	72.50	92.10	72.00
1995	220	8450	1834.57	96.50	95.10	73.30	95.20	72.90
1996	220	5824	1255.17	66.30	65.00	73.00	65.00	72.60
1997	220	8705	1825.93	99.40	94.80	73.80	94.80	73.40
1998	225	7543	1589.33	86.10	80.60	74.10	80.60	73.70
1999	225	8760	1881.15	100.00	95.40	74.80	95.40	74.40
2000	225	7004	1421.37	79.70	71.90	74.70	71.90	74.30
2001	225	5395	931.98	61.60	47.30	73.80	47.30	73.50
2002	225	7414	1488.08	84.60	75.50	73.90	75.50	73.50
2003	225	7967	1608.53	91.00	81.60	74.10	81.60	73.80
2004	225	6009	1197.01	68.40	60.60	73.70	60.60	73.40
2005	225	7872	1609.39	89.90	81.60	73.90	81.60	73.60
2006	225	8626	1734.70	98.70	88.20	74.30	88.20	74.00