| Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant | |
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 Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant: Unit A (left foreground), Units B and C (right) and their cooling towers (rear) | |
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| Country | Germany |
| Location | Gundremmingen, district of Günzburg, Bavaria |
| Coordinates | 48°30′53″N 10°24′8″E / 48.51472°N 10.40222°E |
| Status | Decommissioned |
| Construction began | 1962 |
| Commission date | 12 April 1967 |
| Decommission date |
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| Owners | 75% RWE 25% PreussenElektra |
| Operators | Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH |
| Nuclear power station | |
| Reactor type | BWR |
| Cooling towers | 2 × Natural Draft |
| Cooling source | Danube River |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 1 × 1284 MW |
| Units decommissioned | 1 × 250 MW |
| Nameplate capacity | 2572 MW |
| Capacity factor | 81.83% |
| Annual net output | 18,436 GW·h (2016) |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power station in Germany. It was located in Gundremmingen, district of Günzburg, Bavaria. It was operated by Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH, a joint operation of RWE Power AG (75%) and PreussenElektra (25%). Unit B was shut down at the end of 2017. Unit C, the last boiling water reactor in Germany, was shut down on New Year's Eve 2021, as part of the German nuclear phase out.[1] However, Gundremmingen unit C as well as the other two German nuclear reactors shut down that day (Brokdorf and Grohnde) remained capable of restarting operations in March 2022.[2] In November 1975, Unit A was the site of the first fatal accident in a nuclear power plant in Germany, though the accident was unrelated to radiation.[3] After a later major incident in 1977, Unit A was never returned to service.[4]
- ^ "Germany shuts three of its last six nuclear plants". Reuters. January 2022.
- ^ "Atomkraftwerk Gundremmingen: Bayern prüft, das AKW wieder hochzufahren – so äußert sich der Betreiber". 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Atommüllager Asse: Verwirrung um Berichte über Leichenteile" [Asse Radioactive Waste Repository: Confusion about Reports of Body Parts]. Der Spiegel (in German). 18 September 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ German Federal Minister of the Interior (Gerhart Baum) (22 May 1979). "Übersicht über besondere Vorkommnisse in Kernkraftwerken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" [Overview of special incidents in nuclear power plants in the Federal Republic of Germany] (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2012.