Imperial College nuclear reactor becomes first UK site to be completely decommissioned
Silwood Park experimental reactor closed in 2012 and will now become a park for students and staff
The Imperial College Reactor Centre (ICRC) in Ascot has become the first reactor site to be fully decommissioned under modern rules in UK nuclear history, and only the third UK reactor site to have completed this process. Its land is now safe to use for other purposes.
Part of Imperial College London, ICRC was opened in Silwood Park in 1965 as one of only four university reactors in the country. When it closed in 2012, it was the UK’s last civilian research reactor.