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Trawsfynydd is a village in North Wales adjacent to the A470 north of Dolgellau. North Wales is the northernmost region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales. ...
The A470 is a major road in Wales, running from Cardiff to Llandudno. ...
Dolgellau (also Dolgelley) is a market town in Gwynedd, Wales, lying on the River Mawddach. ...
The village is close to the Llyn Trawsfynydd, a large man-made reservoir which was originally built to supply water for Maentwrog hydro-electric power station in 1928 and later to supply cooling water to a twin reactor nuclear power plant used for the commercial generation of electricity for the UK national grid. The reactors were of the magnox type. Both reactors are now shut down and the site is in the process of being decommissioned. Nothing!HAHAHAHAHA! ...
A nuclear power plant in Cattenom, France. ...
The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, interconnecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in Great Britain can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere. ...
Magnox is an obsolesent type of nuclear power reactor; When operated on a short fuel cycle (which is uneconomic) they can also produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. ...
Trawsfynydd is the home of the Welsh bard Hedd Wyn, who died on the battlefields of Flanders during WWI, just before he was to receive the winning prize at the National Eisteddfod. The 'Black Chair' can now be found at his home farm Yr Ysgwrn. He is buried at Flanders. Hedd Wyn (1887–31 July 1917) was a Merionethshire shepherd-poet of World War I. Born Ellis Humphrey Evans, he used the Bardic name Hedd Wyn, Welsh for white peace or blessed peace. Evans spent most of his life on a hill farm near Trawsfynydd. ...
The Eisteddfod (from Welsh eistedd, to sit; plural is eisteddfodau) is a Welsh festival of literature, music, and song. ...
The parish of Trawsfynydd is also home to Saint John Roberts, one of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales, canonised in 1970. Descended from Welsh saints and princes, he gained great respect helping the plague sufferers in London, but was found guilty of high treason and hung, drawn and quartered on the 10th December 1610.
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