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The cooling towers at the Cottam Power Station were blown up within 10 seconds in August

A recently-demolished Nottinghamshire power station is set to undergo an £11 billion 'transformation' which could result in thousands of new jobs. The Cottam Power Station, in Retford , was decommissioned by EDF Energy in 2019 , having first been built in the 1960s and becoming a notable part of North Nottinghamshire's skyline in the years since.

In August, the plant's eight cooling towers were demolished in what was the most recent and significant stage of decommissioning . The site is now set to be transformed to the UK's first nuclear-powered data centre. It is a move which the government says would create "thousands of high-skilled manufacturing and construction jobs" as well as "long

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