NDA executive director for delivery Mark Lesinski said the income from electricity sales has provided an important contribution to the funding of NDA decommissioning program.
"Magnox and NDA will now work with stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition into the next stage for the site which will involve defuelling and subsequent decommissioning," Lesinski said.
Both of the site’s reactors were scheduled to close at the end of 2008, and since that time the site has generated an additional seven TWh of electricity, worth an estimated GBP300m to the taxpayer.
Magnox said the extra generation has also saved around six million tonnes of carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Following the end of generation the site will move through a transition period into defueling of the reactors before decommissioning begins.
