Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant

Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant
Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant
	Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant
Country	Germany
Location	Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein
Coordinates	53°53′30″N 9°12′06″E / 53.89167°N 9.20167°E
Status	Mothballed (Earmarked not to return following moratorium on nuclear power)
Construction began	1969
Commission date	July 13, 1976
Decommission date	2007
Owners	Vattenfall (67%); PreussenElektra (33%)
Operator	KKW Brunsbüttel
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	BWR
Reactor supplier	Siemens
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 806 MW
Make and model	Siemens
Nameplate capacity	806 MW
Capacity factor	64.1%
Annual net output	4527 GW·h
External links
Website	www.eon-kernkraft.com/frameset_german/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-power-plant_locations/energy_nuclearpower_kkbrunsbuettel.jsp
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The 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. The value of this electricity is about 9.1 billion Euros before calculation of the nuclear waste management.^[1]

As part of the nuclear power phase-out^{[broken anchor]}, it was taken out of service in 2007.^[2]