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Able UK is a British industrial services company specialising in decommissioning of ships and offshore installations.
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Graythorp
Graythorp was a village and now a trading estate within the borough of Hartlepool and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
It is located on the A178 Tees Road about 1 mile south of Hartlepool.
The village was constructed by shipbuilder William Gray and Company to house workers at his Graythorp shipyard on Greatham Creek/Seaton Channel on the River Tees.
Graythorp today is an industrial estate historically associated with a shipyard basin currently operated by Able UK as a marine recycling facility.
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A178 road
The A178 is a road that runs from Hartlepool in County Durham to Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England.
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Hartlepool nuclear power station
Hartlepool nuclear power station is a nuclear power station situated on the northern bank of the mouth of the River Tees, 2.5 mi (4 kilometres) south of Hartlepool in County Durham, North East England.
The station has a net electrical output of 1,185 megawatts, which is 2% of Great Britain's peak electricity demand of 60 GW.
Electricity is produced through the use of two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR). Hartlepool was only the third nuclear power station in the United Kingdom to use AGR technology. It was also the first nuclear power station to be built close to a major urban area.
Originally planned in 1967, with construction starting in 1969, the station started generating electricity in 1983 and was completed in 1985, initially being operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. With privatisation of the UK's electric supply industry in 1990, the station has been owned by Nuclear Electric and British Energy but is now owned and operated by EDF Energy.
The power station will cease power generation in March 2028, prior to defuelling and decommissioning.
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Seal Sands
Seal Sands (grid reference NZ529260) is a 294.37 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England, notified in 1966.
Situated in the mouth of the River Tees next to Greatham Creek and Seaton-on-Tees Channel, the site is accessible from the A178 road running between Seaton Carew and Port Clarence.
SSSIs are designated by Natural England, formerly English Nature, which uses the 1974–1996 county system. This means there is no grouping of SSSIs by Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority, or County Durham which is the relevant ceremonial county. As such Seal Sands is one of 18 SSSIs in the Cleveland area of search.
An area of reclaimed land is given over to chemical industries.