16 Dec (NucNet): A former nuclear power station site in North Wales could become the location for the development of a new generation of small modular reactors, local media reports said. According to the reports, the Snowdonia Enterprise Zone Advisory Board is exploring the potential for the Trawsfynydd site to be considered as a future base for the development of SMRs – reactors with an electricity output less than 300MW, manufactured in a factory and shipped to the point of use. Trawsfynydd, which had two 195-MW gas-cooled Magnox reactors, is on a 15-hectare site, on an inland lake in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Trawsfynydd was the first inland civil Magnox nuclear station. It started service in 1965 and generated 69 TWh of electricity over the 26 years until its closure in 1991.
