Dodewaard nuclear power plant
| Dodewaard nuclear power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '58 " N , 5 ° 41' 11" E | |
| Country: | Netherlands | |
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| Owner: | BV Gemeenschappelijke Nuclear Energy Center Nederland (BV GKN) | |
| Operator: | BV Gemeenschappelijke Nuclear Energy Center Nederland (BV GKN) | |
| Project start: | 1963 | |
| Commercial operation: | March 26, 1969 | |
| Shutdown: | March 26, 1997 | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
1 (60 MW) | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 10,932 GWh | |
| Was standing: | July 27, 2007 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The decommissioned Dodewaard nuclear power plant is located in the province of Gelderland and was in operation from 1968 until its final shutdown in 1997. It was the first commercial nuclear power plant in the Netherlands to feed electricity into the public grid. It was essentially designed as a research reactor, with which experience in the commercial use of nuclear energy should be gained.
Technically, the power plant has a boiling water reactor with 60 MW electrical output. The shutdown took place for reasons of profitability. The last fuel rods were removed from the nuclear power plant for reprocessing in 2003 . However, it will take another 40 years until it is dismantled to a “green field”. This time is the necessary decay time in order to be able to dismantle the radioactive parts of the nuclear power plant afterwards. Since the shutdown of the Dodewaard nuclear power plant, the Borssele nuclear power plant has been the only remaining commercial nuclear reactor in the Netherlands .
Power plant data
The Dodewaard nuclear power plant has one block :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
commercial operation |
Shutdown |
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| Dodewaard | SWR | 55 MW | 60 MW | 05/01/1965 | October 18, 1968 | 03/26/1969 | 03/26/1997 |
Reactor pressure vessel
The reactor pressure vessel was manufactured by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM, Rotterdam). In 2012, thousands of cracks were found in the reactor pressure vessels of the Belgian nuclear power plants Tihange (reactor 2) and Doel (reactor 3), which reduce their compressive strength . Research showed that RDM also supplied the reactor pressure vessel for the Borssele nuclear power plant .
See also
Web links
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- ↑ a b c THE NETHERLANDS. (pdf) International Atomic Energy Agency , accessed on December 31, 2017 .
- ↑ spiegel.de November 16, 2012: German nuclear power plants free of Belgian disease