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| 2nd - 8th May 2014 | UtILIty WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
G
etting older, and all the chal-
lenges that brings with it, is
something everyone – and
everything – has to deal with, writes
Mathew Beech.
The thought crosses my mind as I
return to Dungeness B – the nuclear
power station that looks like its just
been dropped into the salt marsh land-
scape in south Kent – almost 20 years
aer my previous visit.
The power station, which sits
alongside the decommissioned 'A'
plant, is in the midst of a £25 million
maintenance programme.
But this is more than just a regu-
lator MOT for a nuclear power sta-
tion. During this outage, substantial
upgrades are being undertaken, which
should keep the plant in fit working
order through to 2028, possibly as far
as 2030.
New life for
Dungeness B
