Kahl Nuclear Power Plant

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The nuclear power plant Kahl ( also: experimental nuclear power plant Kahl ( VAK ) ) was a nuclear power plant with an electrical capacity of 15 megawatts near Großwelzheim, a district of the Lower Franconian town of Karlstejn am Main in Bavaria. The nuclear power plant with boiling water reactor was the first commercial nuclear power plant in the Federal Republic of Germany. The nuclear power plant was commissioned by RWE and Bavaria factory in order, the complex was built by the General Electric Company ( AEG) with GE General Electric as a licensor and as a supplier of boiling water reactor. On the grounds of the superheated steam reactor Großwelzheim (HDR) was built several years after the construction of the nuclear power plant Kahl ( VAK ), which has now also closed down and dismantled.

History

The power plant VAK went on 13 November 1960 in Operation and power was on June 17, 1961 for the first time fed into the public power grid. It stood in the technical successor to the 24- MW nuclear power plant Vallecitos, USA, GE General Electric, which had started its commercial operation in 1957.

The experimental reactor was a total of 150,000 hours of operation and delivered 2.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. According to the Federal Environment and Nature Protection occurred during the operation to 90 defects and accidents, classified by the seven as seriously.

After 25 years of operation, the power plant VAK was decommissioned on 25 November 1985. Since 1986, the demolition was prepared in 1988 began the first demolition work. In 2005, the characteristic yellow dome has been removed. When dismantling the reactor jacket remote-controlled mini-excavators due to the high radioactivity of reinforced concrete were used.

The last prominent component of the NPPs of the 53 m high chimney was dismantled on July 31, 2007. The end of 2008, the restoration work of the reactor building and all the activated parts of the plant were completed; other buildings and plant parts were demolished in June and July 2010. Großwelzheim is the first location in Germany where two nuclear power plants were completely eliminated. In the formation of the community Karlstejn from the formerly independent places Dettingen am Main and Großwelzheim in 1975, the atomic symbol was incorporated into the newly created and still valid municipal coat of arms because of the nuclear power plant.

Naming

Although the nuclear power plant is not on the denunciation of the community Kahl am Main, but on the neighboring community Großwelzheim (now Karl Stein am Main) was built, it was known from the outset experimental nuclear power plant Kahl. For this purpose, it gave the following reasons:

  • "Bald " is significantly shorter than " Großwelzheim ". This not only simplifies the notation, but should also provide those involved in the early years in power plant Americans linguistic facilitation.
  • Both the adjacent ( and now also disused ) coal power plant Dettingen, and the VAK and the HDR were served by mail by Kahl from Karl Steiner district Kimmel pond, adjacent to the former power station site also projects in the Kahler district, and is also of Bald supplied by post.
  • Großwelzheim has no railway station, and was therefore unsuitable as a destination. Kahl, however, has a railway station.

Documentary

The filmmaker Haro Senft, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto, turned on the construction and commissioning of the nuclear power plant documentation Kahl, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1962.

Data of the reactor block

The nuclear power plant Kahl had a power block:

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