Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station

From Graces Guide

Located near Leiston in Suffolk; two nuclear power stations on this site denoted A and B.

1961 Construction of Sizewell A started

1987 Construction of a second power plant started on an adjacent site - Sizewell B was the first nuclear station in the UK to use a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR)[1]

2006 Sizewell A ceased generating electricity on 31 December 2006.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, October 04 1988