Manod railway station goods transported were nuclear fuel rods carried in nuclear flasks to and from Calder Hall in Cumbria (later known as Sellafield). The line was also used during the late 1980s for freight traffic to a siding at serving the explosives factory in Penrhyndeudraeth. Passenger trains briefly returned to the line in 1989, passing through to a temporary platform at . These trains ran for one summer in an attempt to encourage tourism at the power station. Few people used the service to visit the power station, most riders travelled "for the ride", so the following year tourist trains drove to
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant 1995, making Greifswald one of the first nuclear power stations in Germany to go through the process. The plant came into focus again in 1996 when it was decided to move 235 unspent fuel assemblies to the Hungarian Paks Nuclear Power Plant, which is of the same design. At its peak, the plant employed around 10,000 full-time workers; around 1,000 are working on decommissioning and other activities at the site. Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant Greifswald nuclear power station (German: "Kernkraftwerk Greifswald", KKW Greifswald), also known as Lubmin nuclear power station, was the largest nuclear power station in East Germany before