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Heysham

British  
/ ˈhiːʃəm /

noun

  1. a port in NW England, in NW Lancashire. Pop (with Morecambe): 16 136 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Heysham 1 began operating in 1983 and has two advanced gas cooled reactors, scheduled for closure in 2027.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2025

Two other sites - Hartlepool and Heysham 1 - will continue for an extra year until 2027.

From BBC Dec. 4, 2024

As a result, it was announced in 2021 that the closure dates for Torness and Heysham 2 would be brought forward again by two years to 2028.

From BBC Dec. 4, 2024

He says that both the Heysham nuclear power station and Sellafield nuclear-fuel-processing plant in the United Kingdom release between 400 and 2,000 terabecquerels of tritium into the ocean each year.

From Scientific American Jun. 23, 2023

Passenger steamers, however, also serve Liverpool, Heysham, Bristol, the south coast ports of England and London; Edinburgh and Glasgow, and other ports of Great Britain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

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