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Sizewell
View of Sizewell and beach
View towards the Sizewell power stations along the beach
Map showing location of Sizewell
Map showing location of Sizewell
Sizewell
Location within Suffolk
Civil parish
  • Leiston
District
  • East Suffolk
Shire county
  • Suffolk
Region
  • East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLeiston
Postcode districtIP16
Dialling code01728
UK Parliament
  • Suffolk Coastal
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°12′25″N 1°37′12″E / 52.207°N 1.620°E / 52.207; 1.620

Sizewell is an English fishing hamlet in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It belongs to the civil parish of Leiston and lies on the North Sea coast just north of the larger holiday village of Thorpeness, between the coastal towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town of Leiston and belongs within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB. It is the site of two nuclear power stations, one of them still active. There have been tentative plans for a third station to be built at the site.

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Leiston

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coast at Sizewell: the now decommissioned Magnox reactors of Sizewell A, and the more modern 1,200 MW Pressurised Water Reactor of Sizewell B. The 850...

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Sizewell Hall houses a Christian conference centre in Sizewell on the Suffolk coast, England. The estate is owned by the Ogilvie family. Back in the 1950s...

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Nuclear power in the United Kingdom

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Hartlepool Heysham 1, 2 Hinkley Point A, B, C Hunterston A, B Moorside Oldbury Sizewell A, B, C Torness Trawsfynydd Winfrith Wylfa Nuclear power in the United...

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Aldeburgh branch line

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Thorpeness. Part of the line remains in use for nuclear flask trains servicing Sizewell nuclear power station. The line opened as far as Leiston on 1 June 1859...

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Sizewell Belts

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Sizewell Marshes form a 260-acre (105.4 ha) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest adjacent to Sizewell in Suffolk. It is in the Suffolk Coast...

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RSPB Minsmere

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water levels due to the construction of a new reactor at the neighbouring Sizewell nuclear power stations. The area around Minsmere consists of the wide valley...

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NNB Generation Company

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stations in the United Kingdom. The new plants are to be Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C and will eventually produce up to 6.4 GW in total. EDF originally entered...

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Pine bunting

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characters. One such bird, a vagrant in Suffolk, England in 1982, the "Sizewell bunting", is documented and illustrated with photographs in British Birds...

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Pontins

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(adults-only, closed to guests from April 2024 to house workers constructing the Sizewell C nuclear power station) This is a list of some former Pontins resorts...

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Ducol

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steel itself. Ducol was used in the boiler shells at Sizewell ‘A’ nuclear reactor. Failure of Sizewell ‘A’ boiler under hydrostatic test, May 1963. "The...

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Thorpeness

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local estates to cover the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to past Sizewell, up the coast and inland to Aldringham and Leiston. Most of this land was...

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EDF Energy

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Hartlepool; Heysham 1; Heysham 2 and Torness) and one PWR power station (Sizewell B), totalling nearly 9,000 MW of installed capacity. In 2007, EDF announced...

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Renewable Energy Systems

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Active Sizewell B Closed Bradwell Sizewell A Proposed Sizewell C...

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Suffolk

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bases in the west of the county close to the A11. Sizewell B nuclear power station is at Sizewell on the coast near Leiston. Bernard Matthews Farms have...

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Boy Capel

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following his navy service, and was posted to the coastguard station at the Sizewell Gap in Suffolk. An alumnus of Beaumont College, he was a shipping merchant...

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Nuclear power reactors in Europe

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Hartlepool Heysham 1, 2 Hinkley Point A, B, C Hunterston A, B Moorside Oldbury Sizewell A, B, C Torness Trawsfynydd Winfrith Wylfa The full reactor model name...

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SNUPPS

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utilities, and plants were built at Callaway and Wolf Creek. The UK plant at Sizewell B was also based on SNUPPS but with significant modifications, such as...

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Civil Nuclear Constabulary

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Sellafield Support Units Dungeness Hartlepool Heysham Hinkley Point Hunterston Sizewell Torness In 2007, the CNC adopted a structure similar to other police forces...

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Leiston railway station

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at Sizewell. Passenger services lasted up until 1966 when the line closed to passengers. In August 1967, the track between Aldeburgh and Sizewell siding...

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East Suffolk line

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services operated by Greater Anglia, while nuclear flask trains for the Sizewell nuclear power stations are operated by Direct Rail Services. The Halesworth...

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List of police forces of the United Kingdom

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facilities: Dounreay, Torness, Hunterston, Hartlepool, Sellafield, Heysham, Sizewell, Culham, Harwell, Hinkley Point, Dungeness 1,310 £116.7 - 2005 Civilian...

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Bradwell nuclear power station

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Active Sizewell B Closed Bradwell Sizewell A Proposed Sizewell C...

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East Anglia Array

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Funding has been agreed to improve local activities, courtesy of the Sizewell C and East Anglia Array projects. Local opposition groups approve of the...

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Nuclear Restoration Services

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Chapelcross Dounreay Dungeness A Hinkley Point A Hunterston A Oldbury Sizewell A Trawsfynydd Winfrith Wylfa Maentwrog NRS is a site licence company with...

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