Future Nuclear Plant Plans
Horizon Nuclear Power, an E.ON and RWE joint venture, announced in 2009 intentions to install up to 3,300 MWe of new nuclear plant at Oldbury. Horizon is considering building up to either two 1,650 MWe Areva EPR reactors, or three 1,100 MWe Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. As the Severn estuary water supply would be inadequate to cool these larger reactors, cooling towers would be built.
On 18 October 2010 the British government announced that Oldbury was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations.
On 29 March 2012 E.ON and RWE npower announced that their plans to build the new power station had been shelved.
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