Stade Nuclear Power Plant

Stade Nuclear Power Plant
Official name	Kernkraftwerk Stade
Country	Germany
Location	Bassenfleth
Coordinates	53°37′12″N 9°31′51″E / 53.62000°N 9.53083°E / 53.62000; 9.53083
Status	Closed, in Destruction
Construction began	1967
Commission date	May 19, 1972
Decommission date	November 14, 2003
Owners	PreussenElektra (66.7%) Vattenfall Europe (33.3%)
Operator	Kernkraftwerk Stade GmbH (PreussenElektra)
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Power generation
Make and model	Siemens
Units decommissioned	1 × 672 MW
Capacity factor	76.1%
Annual net output	4481 GW·h
External links
Website	Stade NPP
Commons	Related media on Commons
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Stade Nuclear power plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Stade, KKS) operated from 1972 to 2003 in Bassenfleth close to the Schwinge river mouth into the Elbe river. It was the first nuclear plant shut down after Germany's nuclear phase out legislation and is currently being decommissioned (Phase 2: Deconstruction of larger modules in the containment building^[1]).

The station is on the left bank of the Elbe in Stadersand, a locality of Stade, to the west of Hamburg in Lower Saxony beside Schilling Power Station, which has also been shut down. It was a light water reactor.