How much did the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station cost to build?
Trawsfynydd was a Magnox nuclear power station in Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, Wales, the only nuclear power station in the UK built inland, cooled with water from the artificial Llyn Trawsfynydd reservoir. Designed with architecture by Sir Basil Spence and landscape by Sylvia Crowe, it was built by the Atomic Power Constructions consortium from July 1959, with both reactors operating by March 1965 and the station fully open in October 1968, and produced about 470 MW from two reactors until it closed in 1991. Wikipedia gives the cost as GBP 103 million citing a dead industry-database page, so the figure is unverified.
Reported project cost
拢103 million
Approximately $288.4 million
Cost basis: 1965
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- Powercoflein.gov.uk
- 470 MW
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