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Hunterston B nuclear power station is to be switched off for good at midday on 7 January 2022 | Credit: EDF Energy
Closure of EDF's Ayrshire plant, which has operated on west coast of Scotland since 1976, leaves UK with just seven operational nuclear stations
Hunterston B nuclear power station in Ayrshire is to shut down for good today, after almost half a century of generating low carbon electricity on Scotland's west coast, operator EDF Energy has announced....
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