SWD Transport
County Durham Cats
A nice bonus on the visit to the Durham Coast was this move - 6M60 from Hartlepool Power Station to Sellafield. 68005 and 004 were on this run - which I call a bonus as I didn't notice it running until the last minute!
This train is used to remove spent nuclear reactor fuel from the nuclear power station near Seaton Carrew and transport it to the Nuclear Decommisioning Authority site at Sellafield for processing.
The loading process at Hartlepool is unusual in that the flasks are taken into a building near the main reactor building for loading, rather than being loaded via a crane at a site away from the power station (e.g. Torness - loading is done over 1.5 miles away from the power station). It'd be interesting to know why this method is feasible at Hartlepool but seemingly not at other power stations which are also close to the railway (like Torness), as it seems wasteful to load a HGV then take it less than 2 miles to be offloaded again.
County Durham Cats
A nice bonus on the visit to the Durham Coast was this move - 6M60 from Hartlepool Power Station to Sellafield. 68005 and 004 were on this run - which I call a bonus as I didn't notice it running until the last minute!
This train is used to remove spent nuclear reactor fuel from the nuclear power station near Seaton Carrew and transport it to the Nuclear Decommisioning Authority site at Sellafield for processing.
The loading process at Hartlepool is unusual in that the flasks are taken into a building near the main reactor building for loading, rather than being loaded via a crane at a site away from the power station (e.g. Torness - loading is done over 1.5 miles away from the power station). It'd be interesting to know why this method is feasible at Hartlepool but seemingly not at other power stations which are also close to the railway (like Torness), as it seems wasteful to load a HGV then take it less than 2 miles to be offloaded again.