Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant

Infobox NPP
Picture = Kernkraftwerk Borkdorf 2.jpg
Pic_des = The nuclear plant Brokdorf
Country = Deutschland
EIGENTÜMER = 80 % E.ON
20 % Vattenfall
Utility = E.ON
Built = 1975
Start = October 14, 1986
End =
Reactor = 1
S_Reactor =
Capacity = 1,440
El_Prod = 11,401
for_year = 2005
El_Prod_avg = 11,112
Net_Prod = 197,402
WEBSITE = [http://www.eon-kernkraft.com/frameset_german/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-power-plant_locations/energy_nuclearpower_kkbrokdorf.jsp The plant on E.ON's site]
as_of = October 5, 2006The Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Brokdorf, or KBR) is close of the municipality Brokdorf in Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It started October 1986 by a first-of-its-kind joint venture between PreussenElektra and Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke. During the building phase in the 70's and 80's there were violent protests of nuclear power by opponents. [http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_printcontent/0,,2306337,00.html Nuclear Power in Germany: A Chronology] ]

It is a Pressurized water reactor with uranium dioxide fuel elements, which are used in degrees of enrichment of 1,9 %/2.5 %/3.5 %. It also uses MOX fuel. In the reactor there are 193 fuel assemblies with a heavy metal weight of 103 tons altogether. The nuclear power station Brokdorf has a thermal output of 3,765 MW and an electrical output of 1,440 MW. It belongs to the 3rd PWR generation in Germany. With a net generation of scarcely under 12 billion a KW/H it was the world-wide leader in 2005. [ [http://www.nucweek.platts.com/ Nucleonics Week ] ]

The final disconnection of the plant is so far intended for 2018. [ [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2306337,00.html Nuclear Power in Germany: A Chronology | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 10.01.2007 ] ]

ee also

*Anti-nuclear movement in Germany

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