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DUNGENESS POWER STATION SET TO CLOSE NEXT YEAR

Dungeness Power Station is set to close but under the timetable released by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, but it will take twenty five years before the site is returned to shingle. 

It is planned for both reactors to cease generating electricity in December 2006 when defuelling begins.

Dungeness A is one of 11 sites around the UK being taken out of service at a cost of about £56bn although the cost of decommissioning the Romney Marsh Power Station will be just £1.2bn. 

Under the proposals, the generators will be turned off next year, the fuel will then be taken out of the reactors and transferred to Sellafield for processing, before the non-reactive facilities are demolished in 2010.

The consultation plans will be open until November, with a proposal finalised in December.