Facts and figures
Ever since 1968 this prolific station has produced electricity around the clock. Oldbury is a twin reactor station and, on a typical day, will supply 435MW of electricity – enough to serve a city one and a half times the size of Bristol.
| Basics | |
| Location: | South Gloucestershire |
| Nearby towns/cities: | Oldbury-on-Severn, Bristol (15 miles) |
| Site area: | 71 hectares |
| Number of current employees: | 480 |
| Key dates | |
| Construction start: | 1961 |
| Construction end: | R1 1967/R2 1968 |
| Start operation: | 1967 |
| End operation: | 2010 |
| Defuelling start: | 2011 |
| Defuelling end: | 2013 |
| Care and maintenance preparations start: | 2013 |
| Care and maintenance preparations end: | 2022 |
| Plant description | |
| Reactor type: | Magnox |
| Number of reactors: | 2 |
| Number of fuel channels per reactor: | 3,308 |
| Number of fuel elements per channel: | 8 |
| Number of fuel rods: | 101 |
| Fuel material: | Natural and enriched uranium |
| Reactor coolant: | Carbon dioxide |
| Number of turbo generators: | 2 |
| Electrical output – original design (net): | 600MW |
| Electrical output – current (net): | 434MW (WANO RUP) |
| Station lifetime output to date: | 116 TWh |
| Previous operators: | Central Electricity Generating Board, Nuclear Electric, Magnox Electric |
| Adjacent nuclear power station: | None |
| Unique facts | |
| Oldbury was the first nuclear power station in the UK to have a prestressed concrete pressure vessel instead of steel | |
