Vault Retrieval System at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station
The new Vault Retrieval System is set to manage intermediate level waste retrieval at the disused Berkeley Magnox reactor site in Gloucestershire. The Magnox reactor buildings at the world’s first commercial nuclear power station at Berkeley, Gloucestershire stand square and defiant against the breeze from the River Severn. Built in the late 1950s, the power station produced enough electricity during its heyday to supply a city the size of Bristol. These days, devoid of life and stripped of its external pipework, the seven-storey buildings are little more than hollow shells.