Horizon Nuclear Power, an E.ON and RWE joint venture, announced in 2009 intentions to install up to 3,300 MWe of new nuclear plant at Oldbury. Horizon were considering building up to either two 1,650 MWe Areva EPR reactors, or three 1,100 MWe Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. As the Severn estuary water supply would be inadequate to cool these larger reactors, cooling towers would be built. On 18 October 2010 the British government announced that Oldbury was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. On 29 March 2012 E.ON and RWE npower announced that their plans to build the new power station had been shelved. In late 2012, It was announced that Hitachi had bought the UK Nuclear project from E.ON & RWE, They plan to build ABWR (Advanced Boiling Water Reactors) at this site along with Wylfa Nuclear Power Station, the lead site. The construction of the new station won't start until the new station at Wylfa is operational. This is to gain knowledge and learn from the construction of Wylfa B and correct the things that were problematic during construction. However, with the suspension of Hitachi's work on Wylfa in January 2019, work on Oldbury has been suspended as well. Oldbury was used as a filming location for the "Doctor Who" serial, "The Hand of Fear". Filming at Oldbury took place in 1976. On one occasion, rock band "Slade" recorded a performance for "Top of the Pops" inside one of the reactor buildings. The power station also appeared in several episodes of "Blake's 7".