EDF has recently announced that both reactors at Dungeness B will continue operating until 2028, a life extension of 10 years. The reactors were commissioned in 1983 and 1985 - something I remember well as it came as a great relief to the CEGB after years of delay. This extension has been enabled by a £150M investment programme and means that there should be operational overlap with Hinkley Point C which is expected to be commissioned in 2023.
Although we're talking different technologies it does seem to me to make Germany's decision to shut its nuclear stations down as part of the Energiewende process appear ever more bizarre.
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