Mochovce

Mochovce (Hungarian Mohi ) is a town in Slovakia, since 1990 part of the municipality of Kalná nad Hronom, previously an independent municipality. Mochovce 1295 was first mentioned in writing as Muhy and belonged to 1918 bars in the county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Then the village inhabited mainly by Hungarians came to the newly created Czechoslovakia, but was due to the First Vienna Award between 1938 and 1945 again a part of Hungary. Thereafter it became a part of Czechoslovakia again and had 1980 343 inhabitants. In the 1980s, the nuclear power plant Mochovce was built and the village largely demolished. Only the baroque church and the cemetery are still standing.

Since 2001, the near-surface repository Mochovce is operated for low-and intermediate-level radioactive waste at Mochovce. In Neogene clays bearing chambers were created; these have a storage capacity of 22,320 m3.