Nuclear energy in Austria

The list of nuclear reactors in Austria includes all nuclear power plants whose design / construction was finally abandoned, and all research reactors. Nuclear reactors are in Austria since 1960 in operation. Austria was prohibited from taking any action in the field of nuclear energy to the State Treaty of 1955. 1956 was established by the federal government, the "Austrian Research Association for Nuclear Energy " and commissioned the construction of a " power reactor as a learning model." With the support of nuclear energy Commission of the United States, the nuclear reactor at Seibersdorf center was built southeast of Vienna until 1960.

1972 to 1977 by the building of nuclear power plant Zwentendorf with a planned capacity of 730 MW. The Energy Plan of 1976 called for the construction of three nuclear power plants with a capacity of 3,300 MW in Austria. The second nuclear power plant was planned for St. Pantaleon- Erla in Lower Austria. As the site of the third power plant St. Andrew was planned in Carinthia.

A meeting held on November 5, 1978 referendum prevented with a wafer-thin majority of 50.47 % against the operation, the commissioning of the already completed nuclear power plant Zwentendorf.

Since 5 December 1978, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act closed the use of nuclear energy in Austria. Efforts to commissioning of Zwentendorf hired after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl (26 April 1986); In 1999, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act was elevated to the constitutional rank. Since then it is called Federal Constitutional Law for a nuclear-free Austria.

• 2.1 Performance

Nuclear power plants operating without recording

Performance

Under the grouping nuclear power plants without operating recording includes all power reactors and prototype equipment that should be used for commercial power generation, but have not yet been completed, and their planning and construction have been permanently discontinued, and all power reactors that are planned not yet under construction, but firmly.

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Sign on a transformer building near the nuclear power plant Zwentendorf

Research reactors

Under the grouping research reactor fall nuclear reactors that do not serve the power generation, but mainly for research purposes ( nuclear and material- technical studies, isotope production for medicine and technology ) can be used.

Performance

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