Hinkley Point B passes from EDF to UK decommissioning body

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has taken over Hinkley Point B in Somerset, a station that had been with EDF. The announcement is dated 1 October 2026. Subsidiary Nuclear Restoration Services will manage the plant. That same subsidiary is already dismantling Hinkley Point A beside it. This is the second AGR site to join the NDA group, after Hunterston B moved in April. Dungeness B is planned to move before the decade ends. Hartlepool, Heysham 1, Heysham 2 and Torness are planned to follow once each plant stops generating.

Hinkley Point B was the first AGR of British design to deliver electricity to the grid. That supply began in 1976 and generation ended in 2022, some 46 years on. The NDA described the output as zero-carbon power sufficient for every home in south-west England for 33 years. About 250 people employed on the site are leaving EDF for NRS.

Fuel had already been cleared to prepare for decommissioning, and that work finished to the timetable and inside the budget. Across three years, more than 4,900 spent fuel elements were taken out. Nuclear Transport Solutions loaded them into flasks made for transport and sent them to Sellafield, where they are held in storage.

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