Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant

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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The nuclear power plant in Mülheim -Kärlich ( symbol: KMK) is located northwest of Koblenz, near the city of Mülheim -Kärlich on the left bank of the Rhine. Construction began in 1975, commissioning took place on 1 March 1986 On September 9, 1988, the only nuclear power plant in Rhineland- Palatinate, -. Taken due to a faulty design approval process by the network - only 30 months after the First criticality. It is a pressurized water reactor of the fourth generation with a gross electrical output of 1,302 megawatts.

• 3.1 dispute over transfer of residual electricity volume 3.1.1 Attempted transmission to Biblis A
• 3.1.2 Attempted transmission to Brunsbuttel

Geographical location

The nuclear power station is 2.6 kilometers south of the Neuwied city center and about ten kilometers northwest of Koblenz on 66 meters above sea level. The 33.5 -acre site is located on the boundary Kärlich Mülheim -Kärlich in - as part of the Cologne Bay - easily seismic Neuwied Basin, which stands out by its relative topographic low position from the surrounding Rhenish Slate Mountains. The Rhine River runs north to about 100 meters, the Federal Highway 9 south approximately 700 meters away. Within a radius of ten kilometers and about 231,000 people, including more than 107,000 in Koblenz (as of 2011). The grounds of the nuclear power plant is surrounded in a ten- kilometer radius of predominantly agricultural and forest areas used for agricultural purposes as well as several landscape and nature conservation areas. The average rainfall at the site of the nuclear power plant is about 600 millimeters per year; through a landfill, the region is protected by the nuclear power plant against flooding.

Plant

Nuclear reactor

When the nuclear reactor is a pressurized water reactor. The reactor has a gross electrical power (rated power ) of the generator of 1,302 megawatts. The net output, ie, the maximum time available for the production of electrical energy output is 1,219 MW and corresponds to the gross value minus the own consumption of all ancillary and auxiliary systems of the power plant.

Data

• Contractor: Consortium German Babcock (reactor system ) / ABB
• Type: pressurized water reactor, 4th generation
• Rated power ( electric): 1302 MW
• First electricity production: March 14, 1986
• Storage capacity: 362 fuel
• Height of the cooling tower: 162 meters
• Height of the exhaust stack: 161.5 meters
• Cost: 7 billion Deutsche Mark ( 3.58 billion euros )
• Cost of dismantling: around 725 million euros

History

In the late 1960s, plans for a nuclear power plant near Koblenz. Apart from Mülheim- Kärlich also Bad Breisig and Neuwied were as potential sites in conversation. Bad Breisig failed for reasons of space, Neuwied due to lack of flood protection. Because this was calculated with a rising demand for energy, another nuclear power plant unit was planned at Mülheim- Kärlich site whose plans were but then discarded.

The nuclear power plant in Mülheim -Kärlich was built from 1975 to 1986. During the construction period it came for the actions by communities and individuals as Helga Vowinckel delays. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on February 6, 1980 that the peaceful use of nuclear energy was compatible with the Basic Law, and had a constitutional complaint from the approval process. The work was so controversial, as it is in the slightly seismic Neuwied Basin. Because of this threat the reactor building was built 70 meters from the originally planned location away without a new building permit process.

Because of the irregularities in the approval process of the nuclear power plant in September 1988 but had to be switched off during normal operation due to a judicial decision after nearly two years in the sample and exactly 100 days. The Mainz state government due to insufficient requirements or violations of the Atomic Energy Act permits under Prime Minister Helmut Kohl RWE to build the power plant.

The Rhineland-Palatinate state government issued in 1990 although a modified construction permit, which was annulled by the Supreme Administrative Court of Rhineland -Palatinate in Koblenz in 1995. This decision upheld the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin in 1998 as a last resort. According to the Court, the evidence on the seismic hazard would have a completely new approval procedure requires.

In the following years the nuclear power plant was ready for operation held until it was finally shut down in 2001 by RWE. The removal of nuclear fuel, followed a year later. It could now begin the work of dismantling the plant, which by 2013 should be so far advanced that only the steam generator and the actual reactor pressure vessel remain in the installation.

The turbine, generator, and other components of the power house were sold to an Egyptian utilities.

In the period between construction and permanent cessation there were a number of reportable events that were rated at the lowest level 0 of the INES scale.

Dispute over transfer of the residual amount of electricity

With the amendment of the Atomic Energy Act ( Atomic Energy Act) 2002 2000 negotiated so-called nuclear consensus was enshrined in law. The Act provides in this form for each of the operating reactors in 2000 before a residual amount of electricity, according to the production 's operating license expires.

Due to the short duration of the nuclear power plant Mülheim- Kärlich a special provision was made ​​for this power plant: The power plant was a residual amount of electricity from 107.25 TWh conceded that only the Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2, Isar 2, Brokdorf, Gundremmingen B and C (all may be transferred with an approved residual maturity beyond 2015 ) and up to a volume of 21.45 TWh to Biblis B ( see § 7 para 1d and Appendix 3). The two energy companies RWE and Vattenfall sought a transfer to the date of the applications oldest active power plants Biblis A and Brunsbuttel to reach out for the imminent shutdown. Mathematically, it was in this regulation to a total period of about 10 years.

Attempted transmission to Biblis A

In September 2006, RWE requested the transfer of the residual current amount of nuclear power plant Mülheim- Kärlich on the reactor Biblis A, which is not mentioned in Appendix 3 of the Atomic Energy Act (see also Biblis nuclear power plant ). The application of RWE was rejected in May 2007 by the Federal Ministry of Environment. An appeal against the decision to refuse the RWE failed the end of February 2008, the Hessian Administrative Court ( VGH ). The appeal was rejected on 26 March 2009 by the Federal Administrative Court.

Attempted transmission to Brunsbuttel

In March 2007, requested the operator Vattenfall to transfer the residual electricity quantity of the RWE nuclear power plant Mülheim- Kärlich on the nuclear power plant Brunsbuttel, which is also not listed in the list of permitted reactors in Annex 3 to the Atomic Energy Act. This application was also rejected in August 2007 by the Federal Ministry of Environment. Vattenfall failed in an appeal against the rejection decision in January 2008 before the Administrative Court of Schleswig, but the revision was approved. Vattenfall could study the ruling by the Federal Administrative Court, which upheld the judgment of Schleswig on March 26, 2009.

Gallery

Chapel On the good man and NPP construction site in 1976

Nuclear power plant construction site on April 5, 1976

Aerial view of nuclear power plant in 1979 during the construction period