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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
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Owen Hughes

Demolition of North Wales nuclear plant buildings set to take place

Plans are in to demolish buildings at a nuclear plant in North Wales.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has commissioned Magnox to decommission the Wylfa site on Anglesey, which stopped operating in 2015.

Defuelling ended in September 2019 when the last flask of spent fuel was sent for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria.

Now the removal of buildings at the site is starting with a proposal in to demolish 15 of them.

They include the Pump house Portable Crane and Tracks, an Oxygen Injection Compound, and Seaweed Tippers.

A letter from agent Avison Young said: "The buildings to be demolished are no longer required for operational purposes in association with the Wylfa site.

"The demolition works are proposed as part of the wider decommissioning of the Wylfa site and demolition is scheduled to commence imminently."

It is proposed the buildings are demolished down to the topside of their building slabs.

All the waste material will be removed from the site.

Avison Young added: "In terms of site restoration the site will be cleared and left free of all demolition material aside from the concrete slabs which will be barely visible."

The application has been submitted with Anglesey council.

The site remains a major employer as the decommissioning process continues until all that is left is the two reactor buildings and empty dry fuel stores.

Under current plans those last standing buildings will continue to be monitored for another 100 years.

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