UK’s Oldbury nuclear station to shut down today

Magnox-owned Oldbury nuclear station in the UK will shut down today after 45 years of service.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox agreed that continuing operations on the site would no longer be economically viable.

Reactor 2 was shut down last year and Reactor 1 is scheduled to be switched off at 11am (GMT), today, reports BBC news.

Located on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, the facility was due to close 2008 and again in June 2011, but managers of the site said that there would be enough fuel to operate one of the plant's two reactors beyond that date.

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Dominion Virginia Power to build $1bn natural gas-fired power station

Dominion Virginia Power has unveiled plans to invest more than $1bn to build a combined-cycle, natural gas-fired power station in Virginia, the US.

The company will seek approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission later this year to build the plant on a 205-acre site.

Dominion chairman, president and CEO Thomas Farrell II said the Brunswick County site is an ideal location to generate electricity to serve Southside Virginia and Hampton Roads, and will help the company close the gap of 4,000MW in additional peak demand expected within the next decade.

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Kuwait has scrapped its plans to build four nuclear reactors by 2022, following the crisis in Fukushima last March.

Kuwait has abandoned its nuclear programme this week on the back of the Fukushima disaster last year, according to media reports.

Officials from a Kuwaiti government research body told the Japan Times that the Gulf state had scrapped its plans to build four nuclear reactors by 2022, following the crisis in Japan last March.

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