who owns the nuclear power plants in uk
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom EDF Energy owns and manages the seven currently operating reactor sites, with a combined capacity approaching 9,000 megawatts.[12] All nuclear installations in the UK are overseen by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
List of nuclear power accidents by country The world's worst nuclear accident has been the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, one of two accidents that has been rated as a level 7 (the highest) event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.[9] Note that the Chernobyl disaster may have scored an 8 or 9, if the scale continued. The accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after an unsafe systems test led to a rupture of the reactor vessel and a series of steam explosions that destroyed reactor number four. The radioactivity plume spread to the surrounding city of Pripyat and covered extensive portions of Europe with traces of radioactivity, leaving reindeer in Northern Europe and sheep in portions of England unfit for human consumption. A 30 kilometres (19Â mi) "Zone of alienation" has been formed around the reactor.[10]