Horizon Confirms Plans For First New UK Plant At Wylfa
Written by NucNet
Friday, 02 April 2010
A joint venture company established by E.ON UK and RWE Npower plans to build its first UK nuclear plant near an existing nuclear site at Wylfa on the Isle of Anglesey, north Wales.
Horizon Nuclear Power announced its plans this week, saying a planning application for Wylfa would be submitted in 2012 and the first unit could be commissioned as early as 2020.
The company also announced that the Wylfa application will be followed by an application for a second nuclear plant near another existing nuclear site, Oldbury-on-Severn in southwest England, once construction at Wylfa is under way.
Each site is planned to have a capacity of up to 3,300 megawatts.
