Trawsfynydd

Trawsfynydd is located on a 15.4 hectare site in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales, Trawsfynydd was the first inland civil Magnox nuclear station and drew its cooling water from Llyn (lake) Trawsfynydd.

The Central Electricity Generating Board was keen to recognise that Trawsfynydd was a Welsh power station, so a large, pebble ‘mosaic’ depicting a Welsh dragon forms the paving of the central courtyard which is now listed on the ‘Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in Wales’.

Trawsfynydd was the first Magnox site to recover radioactive waste from all its waste streams. Wet waste retrievals completed in 2018, followed by bulk fuel element debris retrievals in 2022.

Trawsfynydd is now the lead and learn site for Reactor Dismantling within Magnox’s Rolling Programme of Decommissioning.

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Information is presented about wastes that existed at Trawsfynydd at the stock date (1 April 2022) and were forecast to arise after this date.

Waste Inventory Data for Trawsfynydd

For background information about this site owner, please refer to the Site Information Sheets in the 2022 UK Radioactive Waste Inventory report.

The following page presents information about radioactive wastes at the specific site selected.

Information about spent fuel and nuclear materials is presented separately in the relevant 2022 Inventory report. For official figures and essential information about how the data has been produced, always refer to the UKRWI 2022 published reports.

View all 2022 waste stream data sheets for Trawsfynydd

Waste groupings

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Activated metals
Activated other materials
Asbestos & other insulation materials
Concrete & rubble
Conditioned
Contaminated metals
Contaminated other materials
Desiccant & catalysts
Flocs
Fuel cladding & miscellaneous wastes
Fuel element debris
Fuels & uranium residues
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High level waste
Inorganic ion exchange materials
Miscellaneous contaminated materials
Mixed wastes
Oils & other fluids
Organic ion exchange materials
Plutonium contaminated materials
Raffinate
Sludges
Soil
Uranium & thorium contaminated material
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Waste category Volume (m3)
Reported at 1 April 2022 Estimated future arisings Lifetime Total
HLW 0 0 0
ILW 2,240 4,670 6,910
LLW 170 46,600 46,800
VLLW 0 0 0
Total 2,410 51,300 53,700
Waste category Volume (m3)
Reported at 1 April 2022 Estimated future arisings Lifetime Total
HLW 0 0 0
ILW 4,360 5,510 9,870
LLW 186 73,000 73,100
VLLW 0 0 0
Total 4,550 78,500 83,000
Waste category Volume (m3)
Reported at 1 April 2022 Estimated future arisings Lifetime Total
HLW 0 0 0
ILW 7,420 5,900 13,300
LLW 197 77,300 77,500
VLLW 0 0 0
Total 7,620 83,200 90,800

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From 1 April 2022 there is a net decrease in the volume of HLW because accumulated highly active liquor is being conditioned, which reduces its volume by about two-thirds, and also because vitrified HLW is being exported to overseas customers.

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