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Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed, the design being based on the much smaller Windscale AGR prototype ; the WAGR.
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The CEGB conducted a detailed economic appraisal of the competing designs and concluded that the AGR proposed for Dungeness B would generate the cheapest electricity, cheaper than any of the rival designs and the best coal-fired stations.
An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated.
The lead station, Dungeness B was ordered in 1965 with a target completion date of 1970.
The parish encompasses four electricity industry sites: Dungeness A & B Nuclear Power Stations, a substation of the National Grid, and a former static inverter plant used by the HVDC Cross-Channel between 1961 and 1984.
Fairey Engineering Ltd also made Nuclear Reactor cores and fuelling machines for Dungeness B and Trawsfynydd.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) power station consisting of two 615 MW reactors, which began operations in 1983 and 1985 respectively.
The Dungeness B restraint couplings-mechanical linkages that held the graphite core in place whilst allowing it to expand and contract in response to temperature changes-were made of mild steel and could be subject to the same corrosion.
On 15 April 2009 Dungeness was included in a list of 11 potential sites for new nuclear power stations, at the request of EDF Energy, which owns and operates Dungeness B.
* Dungeness B information page From British Energy.
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Harrison was a descendant of Robert Carter I, Benjamin Harrison IV, William Randolph, and Isham Randolph of Dungeness.
Believing that the war was all but over, the English divided their forces and in December were routed by the fleet of Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness in the English Channel.
Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.
Historically, much of the area was an open oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and development of the Dungeness valley have changed this ecosystem.
Howey was not happy with just from New Romney to Hythe and he extended from New Romney to Dungeness.
He was also responsible for the partially completed Watkin's Tower and an abortive attempt in the 1880s to create a new south-coast resort and deep-water port at Dungeness in Kent.
When it became clear that Napoleon was planning an invasion of England, Moore was put in charge of the defence of the coast from Dover to Dungeness.
The victory meant that the English control over the English Channel, regained by the Battle of Portland in March after it had been lost in the Battle of Dungeness, was now extended to the North Sea.
The one-time branch to New Romney from Appledore ( its small offshoot to Dungeness closed in 1937 ) was closed to passenger traffic in 1967.
It was possible to travel directly from Dungeness to London, and the 2 h journey time was quicker than by road and rail today.
It was formed by members of S ' Klallam communities along the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1874 when, faced with the threat of forced relocation by white settlers, a group purchased a tract of and established a community near Dungeness named " Jamestown " in honor of village leader James Balch.
Isham Randolph of Dungeness, one of Thomas Jefferson's grandfathers and son of William Randolph, was married in St. Paul's church.
Another of the four was caught and it was discovered he had hidden radio equipment in a tree not far from the Lydd to Dungeness road.
A pumping station was built at Lydd, linking Dungeness with a Petroleum pipeline from Walton-on-Thames.
Isham Randolph of Dungeness was the grandfather of both Randolph Jefferson and Ann Jefferson Lewis.
Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station, that was connected to the National Grid in 1965 and has reached the end of its life.
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The first European settlers arrived in the Dungeness Valley in the 1850s, settling nearby Dungeness, Washington.
The two fleets met for the first time in a major battle at the Battle of Dungeness, November 1652.
* Dungeness " A " in Kent, 2 units 219 MWe each, first grid connection 1966, shut down 2006 ()
Begun in 1942, the plan included a thousand miles of pipelines linking Grain on the Hoo peninsula, and other oil refineries, first to Dungeness and soon after to Sandown on the Isle of Wight, where pumping stations were set up to successfully carry over 6, 000 tons of fuel a day to Cherbourg.
The name Dungeness derives from Old Norse nes: " headland ", with the first part probably connected with the nearby Denge Marsh.
There are two nuclear power stations at Dungeness, the first built in 1965 and the second in 1983.
In 1944 some of the world's first submarine oil pipelines were laid between Dungeness and France in Operation Pluto.
* Britain's first Audouin's Gull was found in May at Dungeness, Kent
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The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.
His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness in Kent, near the nuclear power station.
Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station.
movement in the United Kingdom started in 1990, when a group in Hastings, Sussex organised an action at Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent.
The harbour arm of Hastings is just visible at low tide, as is the nuclear power station at Dungeness a few miles further east.
The line is still in place about a mile short of Dungeness and is used to transfer waste from the nuclear power plant.
* Fairey Nuclear Ltd, Heston, Nuclear components and light engineering ; see also Dungeness nuclear power station
* Dungeness A nuclear power station ( shut down in 2006 )
Destinations served include the UK nuclear power stations at Heysham, Valley ( for Wylfa ), Bridgwater ( for Hinkley Point ), Berkeley ( for Oldbury ), Hunterston, Torness, Seaton-on-Tees, Dungeness and Sizewell.
Dungeness nuclear power station may refer to either one of a pair of nuclear power stations, only one of which is still operational, located on the Dungeness headland in the south east of Kent, England.
From 1961 to 1984, Dungeness power station also housed the mercury arc valves of the static inverter plant converting AC into DC for transmission on HVDC Cross-Channel, the high-voltage direct current power cable carrying electric power across the English Channel to France.
Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.
The waste hot water and sewage from the Dungeness nuclear power stations are pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.
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