Lingen Nuclear Power Plant

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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The nuclear power plant in Lingen ( KWL) in Lingen was a boiling water reactor, was begun in 1964 and which should serve as a demonstration plant for later boiling water reactors. The reactor had a thermal power of 540 MW, the oil -fired superheater had a thermal output of 214 MW. This revealed for the power plant electrical output of 250 MW, of which 82 MW from the superheater. Due to the oil-fired superheater possessed the power plant - unusual for a nuclear power plant - via a 150 -meter-high chimney. This was demolished in the summer of 2009 as part of the decommissioning work at the power plant and replaced by a much smaller chimney.

In 1968 VEW Group in the then independent municipality of the intestine Lingen nuclear power plant in operation. It was one of the first commercial nuclear power plants in Germany. In 1977, the nuclear part of the power plant was shut down after a loss in Dampfumformersystem and located since 1988 in safe enclosure. As of 2013, the power plant will be totally eliminated.

1989/90 became the site of the power plant once more attention, because it was stored on the local site after the disaster of Chernobyl radioactively contaminated whey powder and processed. A total of 5,000 tonnes of whey powder from the Bavarian cheese production, which was originally contaminated with up to 8,000 becquerels cesium -137 per kilogram, were treated with a process developed by Prof. Franz Roiner from Hannover ion exchange process; after the contamination was still 100 becquerels per kilogram. After treatment, this whey powder was used as animal feed.

The power plant was originally owned by the VEW Group. Since its merger with RWE is part of the RWE Power AG.

The natural gas power plant Emsland and a few kilometers are situated right next to the nuclear power plant south east of the site the Emsland nuclear power plant.

Data of the reactor block

The nuclear power plant Lingen had a power block: