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Cutaway drawing of the reactor at the Wylfa nuclear power station on the island of Anglesey, UK, 1965. The gas-cooled graphite block nuclear reactor is known as a Magnox reactor, after the magnesium oxide alloy cladding covering its natural (unenriched) uranium fuel. Courtesy Nuclear Engineering International magazine.

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