Talk:Wylfa nuclear power station

Pronunciation
It would be good to have a mention of the correct pronunciation. I'd guess at something like WOOL-va but it would be great if someone local could add IPA and/or pronunciation respelling. --Hybrid2712 (talk) 08:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC) add this link

http://www.horizonnuclearpower.com/news Proposed reactor type by Horizon Hitachi is a 2x ABWR 1.3GWe  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.118.147.254 (talk) 07:05, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Misleadiing text
Do the numbers on this:    "...Wylfa houses two 490 MW Magnox nuclear reactors, "Reactor 1" and "Reactor 2", which were built from 1963 and became operational in 1971.[4] Wylfa typically supplied 23 GW h of electricity daily..." and the capacity factor is 97.7%. This seems unrealistically high for any worthwhile time period of generation - is there anyone in the know who could check this out? (Prismsuk (talk) 17:50, 22 August 2015 (UTC))

"The Fukushima incident was caused by a 9.0 MW earthquake followed by a tsunami; Anglesey is not in an area which suffers similar seismic activity, with 5.0 MW being considered a "large" earthquake in the UK [20] (the logarithmic scale used means that the Fukushima earthquake released about a million times as much energy) and the last major tsunami to hit the British Isles having been 7,200 years ago.[21]"

This text is inaccurate in two major ways:

1.) The epicentre of the March 2011 earthquake was 176 km northeast of the Fukushima power plant, so the ground shaking at the power plant locations was not equivalent to a 9.0 earthquake.

2.) The last major tsunami to hit the UK was the 1775 tsunami caused by the Lisbon earthquake, 236 years ago.

It is also still not clear what caused the Fukushima plant to fail: the ground shaking or the tsunami. I am not going to fix the text and spark an edit war with the nuclear industry and their wikipedia minions, so I will simply point out the inaccuracies here.

130.235.100.183 (talk) 16:53, 5 December 2013 (UTC)


 * For that matter, the epicentre of a "large" UK earthquake might not be spot on top of the Wylfa station. Fukushima experienced an enormously greater ground shock, by several orders of magnitude, than has ever been seen in the UK.


 * It is, I suppose, literally true that the Portuguese tsunami was major (near Portugal) and hit the British Isles (a bit), but that is a little misleading since when it _got_ to Britain no significant effects were recorded.


 * I don't work for, in any sense, not some PR flack's dodge, the nuclear industry. Pinkbeast (talk) 17:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)


 * About the seismic activity essay, I agree, but I am afraid it is original reasearch.
 * I have deleted: "This came as disturbing news to some people as Hitachi built the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station where a major nuclear incident occurred in 2011." because:
 * a) Hitachi built only reactor n.4 (finished 35 yeas ago)
 * b) Hitachi also built reactors n.2 and n.4 of Fukushima Daini which where hit at full power and built, togheter with Toshiba, reactor n.3 of Onagawa, also hit at full power, without any consequences.
 * c) If Hitachi was at fault about reactor n.4 cooling pool, we could say that it has learned his work with the three newer reactor's hit without consequences.
 * --Robertiki (talk) 22:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the removal of the material about seismic activity (well, I suppose I would). It would be impermissible synthesis to draw the (obvious) conclusion that Wylfa is not going to suddenly jump into the sea, but it is not OR to mention pertinent facts. Pinkbeast (talk) 04:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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