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== Technical information == Source:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/30/052/30052480.pdf|title=Description of the Magnox Type of Gas Cooled Reactor (MAGNOX)|website=www.iaea.org}}</ref> {| class="standard" align=center !align=left|Specification||[[Sellafield#Calder Hall nuclear power station|Calder Hall]]||[[Wylfa]]||[[Oldbury nuclear power station|Oldbury]] |- align=center |align=left|Thermal output (gross), MW||182||1875||835 |- align=center |align=left|Electrical output (gross), MW||46||590||280 |- align=center | align="left" |Efficiency, %||23||33||34 |- align=center |align=left|Number of fuel channels||1696||6150||3320 |- align=center |align=left|Active core diameter||9.45 m||17.4 m||12.8 m |- align=center |align=left|Active core height||6.4 m ||9.2 m||8.5 m |- align=center |align=left|Mean gas pressure||7 bar||26.2 bar||25.6 bar |- align=center |align=left|Mean inlet gas temperature Β°C||140||247||245 |- align=center |align=left|Mean outlet gas temperature Β°C||336||414||410 |- align=center |align=left|Total gas flow||891 kg/s||10254 kg/s||4627 kg/s |- align=center |align=left|Material||Natural uranium metal||Natural uranium metal||Natural uranium metal |- align=center |align=left|Mass of uranium in tonnes ||120||595||293 |- align=center |align=left|Pressure vessel internal diameter||11.28 m||29.3 m||23.5 m |- align=center |align=left|Pressure vessel internal height||21.3 m||β||18.3 m |- align=center |align=left|Gas circulators||4||4||4 |- align=center |align=left|Steam generators||4||1||4 |- align=center |align=left|Number of generators||2||2||1 |}
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