Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant
| Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 623360 / 265 521 | |
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 Switzerland
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| Owner: | Kaiseraugst AG nuclear power plant | |
| Operator: | Kaiseraugst AG nuclear power plant | |
| Planning finished: | Jan. 1, 1989 | |
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Planning set (gross): |
1 (1000 MW) | |
| Was standing: | June 7, 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The planned Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant in Kaiseraugst in the Swiss canton of Aargau failed due to bitter resistance from the regional population and environmental protection groups. For a long time the community was under discussion as the location of a nuclear power plant. The most spectacular action in 1975 was an eleven-week occupation of the building site by initially around 15,000 people. In 1988 the project was finally dropped.
history
Motor-Columbus designed the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant in view of the increasing electricity consumption in Switzerland. In order to meet this need as quickly as possible, an attempt was made to advance the project approval process quickly. However, over time, for political reasons, it was no longer possible to realize the project. The power plant had a planning period of over 20 years behind it. The final cost of the project was 1.3 billion Swiss francs.
Disputes about the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant had been going on since the early 1970s. In May 1970, the Northwestern Switzerland Action Committee against the Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant (NAK), later known as the Northwestern Switzerland Action Committee against Nuclear Power Plants (NWA), was the first organized opposition in Switzerland to the initiated construction of nuclear power plants. In July 1973 the federal court ruled that the municipality of Kaiseraugst and the canton of Basel-Stadt were not authorized to lodge a complaint with him against the project, since the constitution and nuclear legislation provided the federal government as the sole authorizing authority.
The federal authorities dealt with various scenarios to ensure a secure energy supply. Ultimately, the focus was on the nuclear power plant near Kaiseraugst. The project was later rejected by many parts of the population. At first it looked different; the majority in the country wanted to use nuclear power plants as an energy source.
The location permit in Kaiseraugst was tendered on August 28, 1972 for a system with an electrical output of 850 MW. Cooling towers were also planned if the power plant were to be built at a location shifted by 600 m near the power plant site. Concrete project planning began in 1974.
In April 1975 the site of the power plant was occupied for the second time by activists, this time by around 15,000 people, who obstructed the excavation work that had already started. The start of construction was therefore postponed by the authorities after eleven weeks of resistance from the demonstrators. In February 1979 the information pavilion of the planned nuclear power plant was blown up by militant power plant opponents.
On October 28, 1981, the Federal Council approved a new system of the boiling water reactor type with an electrical output increased to 900 to 1000 MW. From the 17th to the 25th meeting in 1985/1986 there were plans for reactors of the type BWR-6 ( containment of type Mark 2 or 3) from General Electric , SWR-72 from Kraftwerk Union (today implemented in the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant ), SWR- 75 from Asea-Atom and ABWR available.
In 1987 construction with once- through cooling was approved. The option of cooling towers had to remain open. Ultimately, all prerequisites were in place, except for the seismic in the Basel area and the concept of an emergency plan in the event of an accident. Next, a supplier for the power plant should have been chosen. But since this step was never carried out, a contract was never signed. Shortly afterwards the project was abandoned by politicians for economic reasons.
According to the Swiss Federal Council, the project had accrued around 1.335 billion Swiss francs in costs by the end of 1987 , of which 1.098 billion was for construction costs (including 482 million for plant and project planning and 538 million for interest and financing, 32 million for the property, 34 million for administrative and general expenses), 136 million for nuclear fuel and 100 million for unpaid share capital. The total loss of the operator, Kernkraftwerk Kaiseraugst AG , was estimated by the Federal Council at 1.1 to 1.3 billion francs.
In the end, the companies received CHF 350 million in compensation from the Swiss Confederation.
Data of the reactor block
The power plant should get a block:
| Reactor block | Reactor type | Net power | Gross output | start of building | Project setting |
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| Kaiseraugst | Boiling water reactor | 1000 MW | - | January 1, 1989 |
See also
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- Review of a dissertation on the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant (PDF; 80 kB)
- Extra edition of the Basler Zeitung of March 2nd, 1988: Out for Kaiseraugst
- Write the Federal Council of 2 June 1975 addressed to the cantonal governments concerning "restore the rule of law on the occupied site" in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
- Various documents on the nuclear power station Kaiseraugst in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant. Non-implementation ( memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Swiss National Council, Motion 88.334, submitted by National Councilor Georg Stucky on March 3, 1988 with the response of the Federal Council on September 28, 1988. There point 2.2.6 The costs incurred (accessed on July 22, 2008)
- ^ Peter Hug: Anti-atom movement. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on November 7, 2011 .
- ↑ The myth of Kaiseraugst. In: Observer .
- ^ Swiss television: Explosives attack in Kaiseraugst. ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive on the history of nuclear energy in Switzerland (p. 142)
- ↑ Davide Scruzzi: The consequences of Woodstock's opponents of the nuclear power plant | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 29, 2016, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on January 28, 2018]).
- ↑ Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant at the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
