Emsland Nuclear Power Plant

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Active reactors ( gross ):

Description

The power plant was designed as a replacement for the 1977 decommissioned nuclear power plant Lingen and built in the early 1980s. The reactor was first critically on 14 April 1988, adopted on 20 June 1988, commercial operation. The power plant has a pressurized water reactor type convoy, the fourth - generation pressurized water reactor in Germany. The reactor contains 193 fuel assemblies with a heavy metal weight of 103 tons. The Emsland nuclear power plant has an electrical output of 1,400 MW ( gross). Minus the own needs of 71 MW up to 1,329 MW are fed into the grid. The power is supplied via the switchgear Hanekenfähr on the 380 kV high- voltage level in the power grid of the transmission system operator Amprion. In addition, the facility is a 152 -meter-high natural draft wet cooling tower is available, which is used as a cooling system and in process operation.

The final shutdown of the Emsland nuclear power station is planned for 2022. To the north of the power plant are the disused Lingen plant and the natural gas power plant Emsland.

In December 2002, the site interim storage Lingen ( SSL) was put into operation on the grounds of the nuclear power plant. There, the spent fuel elements are stored in Castor containers until they can be placed in a repository that has to provide the latest in 2030 the federal government. In this interim storage are 130 storage locations for containers with a heavy metal weight of 1,250 tons. The SSL has to protect against external influences, such as earthquake, explosion, or plane crashes, a 1.30 -meter-thick concrete roof and 1.20 meters thick concrete walls.

Radioactivity

Operationally manage nuclear power plants on air and water, small amounts of radioactive substances from ( emission). The Atomic Energy Act requires supervisors among other things, to monitor the operation as regards the approved limits. A corresponding overview for the KKE can be found on the sides of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change.

Malfunction

On 24 July 2009, the power station separated by a disturbance of the category N ( Normal) in the tap changer of a generator transformer from the mains and still causes subsequently a reactor scram at night. In Quarterly Report 3 /2009 of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, this event is listed as " 24/07/2009, KKE, failure of the block feeding with subsequent reactor scram on low steam generator level, 09/ 072, N, 0 " In the scheme of international rating scale, the incident under the consideration of the third aspect, the impairment of the safety precautions, no or very low safety significance (INES 0).

Data of the reactor block

The Emsland nuclear power plant has a power block: