Chapelcross Site
Chapelcross was Scotland’s first commercial nuclear power station and was built on the 92-hectare site of a World War II training airfield in Dumfries and Galloway.
Built to produce 200MW of electricity, the site shut down after 45 years of successful operation and began decommissioning in 2013.
The Site siren is tested on the first Thursday of each month. This is carried out at:
- 10.00am in January, April, July and October
- 17.30pm in February, March, May, June, August, September, November and December
Key priorities 2022-3
- Complete active commissioning of the modular intermediate level waste encapsulation plant.
- Continue to retrieve, treat and store intermediate level waste from the spent fuel cooling ponds.
- Install a modular effluent treatment plant to enable the two spent fuel cooling ponds to be drained.
- Complete civil reactor building improvements including roof repairs, installing new handrails and replacing the glazing and cladding of all elevations.
- Commence asbestos remediation of the former administration building in preparation for de-planting and future demolition.
- Progress design plans for the cooling tower basins land clean-up.
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Chapelcross Site
Cooling towers demolition 2013
Reactor building glazing replacement
Spent fuel ponds waste retrievals
Modular Intermediate Level Waste Encapsulation Plant
Key facts
1955
Construction began
1959
Generation started
2004
Generation ended
2007
Cooling towers demolished
2009
Defueling started
2013
Defueling completed
60
Total output TWhrs
0 hectares
Land released for re-use
4
Number of reactors