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Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant

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Country
  
Germany

Operator(s)
  
KKW Brunsbüttel

Make and model
  
Siemens

Decommission date
  
2007

Location
  
Brunsbüttel

Reactor type
  
BWR

Construction began
  
1969

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Status
  
Mothballed (Earmarked not to return following moratorium on nuclear power)

Owner(s)
  
Vattenfall (67%) E.ON (33%)

Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Brunsbüttel near Hamburg, Germany. It is owned 67% by Vattenfall and 33% by E.ON. It started operation in 1976 and has a gross power production of 806 MW. During its lifetime, it produced 130,000 GW hours of electricity, about double the electricity production of Austria. The value of this electricity is about 9.1 billion Euros.

As part of the nuclear power phase-out, it was taken out of service in 2007.

References

Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant Wikipedia