former Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station

United Kingdom / Scotland / Eaglesfield /
 RAF - Royal Air Force, closed, closed / former military, nuclear power plant
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station occupies a 92 hectare site on the location of former WW2 training airfield, RAF Annan, located 3 km north east of the town of Annan in the Annandale and Eskdale district within the Dumfries and Galloway region of south west Scotland. The nearest hamlet is Creca.It construction was completed in 1959.

It was decommissioned in 2004, and was demolished on the 20th of May 2007 with the explosion highlighted in video on BBC NEWS. Some of the original airfield building have survived, although they are said to have been re-sited from their original locations.

www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/RAFAnnan
canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/90517/details/annan+airfi...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelcross
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Coordinates:   55°1'5"N   3°13'46"W

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  • The 4 cooling towers at Chepelcross were demolished by controlled explosions in May 2007.
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