Kraftwerk Union
| Kraftwerk Union AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat | Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany |
| Number of employees | 14,000 |
| Branch | Power plant construction |
The Kraftwerk Union AG ( KWU ) was a joint subsidiary of Siemens and AEG . It operated the construction of power plants , especially nuclear power plants . The locations were Mülheim an der Ruhr , Erlangen , Berlin , Karlstein am Main and Offenbach am Main . The KWU later became synonymous with Siemens' power plant business.
history
- After the nuclear power plant divisions of Siemens and AEG cooperated from 1968, Kraftwerk Union AG, based in Mülheim, was founded in 1969 from the power plant divisions of AEG and Siemens. Steam turbines and generators were manufactured at the Mülheim site, and gas turbines at Berlin. Development and planning took place at the Erlangen and Offenbach locations. In the same year, the Transformatoren Union (TU) was also founded by the corporations. Up to this point, AEG had only built boiling water reactors based on the technology of the US company General Electric , while Siemens had built pressurized water reactors under license from Westinghouse . But Siemens' non-nuclear power plant business was also integrated into KWU. Five years later, the AEG nuclear power division was taken over by KWU. Another division was KWU-Umwelttechnik GmbH, which, for example, offered smoldering systems in cooperation with MAN-Gutehoffnungshütte GmbH .
- In 1977 Siemens became the sole shareholder of KWU AG.
- In 1978 AEG also sold parts of the Transformatoren Union to the KWU. On October 1, 1987 the takeover of KWU and TU was completed.
- The KWU experienced its most successful period in the 1980s with the construction of the so-called convoy reactor line. Abroad, KWU is involved in the construction of the Gösgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland , from 1974 on the power plant near Bushehr (Iran) destroyed by Iraqi air raids , the heavy water reactors Atucha I and II in Argentina, and the Angra 2 and 3 nuclear power plant (for block 3 only almost all parts were delivered, but was not under construction during the KWU era) in Brazil. The only commercial nuclear power plant in Austria, the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant , never went into operation after it was built by the KWU. In Germany, it was also involved in the construction of various advanced reactors, such as the fast breeder in Kalkar , the KNK II research reactor in Karlsruhe and the FRM and FRM2 research reactors in Munich .
- SIEMENS SNP and PG: The nuclear division of KWU was spun off in July 2000 under the name Siemens Nuclear Power GmbH , the conventional power plant and turbine division was renamed Power Generation .
- From the beginning of the 1990s, the French Framatome began developing the European Pressurized Water Reactor together with Siemens' nuclear power subsidiary . The German side was primarily responsible for the safety-related aspects ( material testing and others). The control technology (Siemens Teleperm M ) was also developed in Germany.
- The political and public attitude towards nuclear power in Germany as well as the poor order situation - Siemens' nuclear power division was almost exclusively active in the maintenance and fuel business - led Siemens to decide to outsource the nuclear power business again and to sell the majority stake.
- Framatome ANP - Siemens and the French company Framatome formed a joint venture in 2001: Siemens SNP and Framatome became Framatome ANP - Siemens AG received a 34 percent stake in Framatome ANP. In March 2006 the name was changed to Areva NP .
- Power Generation (PG) and Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) remained 100 percent integrated in the Siemens Group as business areas.
- On March 18, 2011, Siemens sold all of its shares in Areva NP for 1.62 billion euros to its parent company Areva.
- In 2018, the majority of Areva NP was sold to EDF and has been trading under the Framatome name again since then.
Nuclear power plants (commercial power reactors)
The following nuclear power plants or reactor blocks were built by Kraftwerk Union.
Boiling water reactors (BWR)
| Reactor block | designated voltage |
country | status | operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Würgassen NPP | KWW | Germany | dismantled | PreussenElektra |
| Brunsbüttel NPP | KKB | Germany | Out of service | Vattenfall |
| Zwentendorf / Tullnerfeld nuclear power plant | GKT | Austria | not put into operation | Joint nuclear power plant Tullnerfeld GmbH |
| Philippsburg NPP 1 | KKP-1 | Germany | Out of service | EnBW |
| Isar NPP 1 | KKI-1 | Germany | Out of service | PreussenElektra |
| KKW Krümmel | KKK | Germany | Out of service | Vattenfall |
| NPP Gundremmingen B | KRB-B | Germany | Out of service | RWE |
| NPP Gundremmingen C | KRB-C | Germany | Operational management | RWE |
Pressurized water reactors (PWR)
| Reactor block | designated voltage |
country | status | operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obrigheim NPP | KWO | Germany | In dismantling (by 2020) | EnBW |
| Stade NPP | KKS | Germany | In dismantling (until 2023) | PreussenElektra |
| Borssele NPP | KCB | Netherlands | Operational management | EPZ |
| Biblis A | KWB-A | Germany | Out of service | RWE |
| Biblis B NPP | KWB-B | Germany | Out of service | RWE |
| Neckarwestheim NPP 1 | GKN-1 | Germany | Out of service | EnBW |
| Neckarwestheim NPP 2 | GKN-2 | Germany | Operational management | EnBW |
| Lower Weser NPP | KKU | Germany | Out of service | PreussenElektra |
| Trillo NPP 1 | CNT1 | Spain | Operational management | ENDESA |
| Trillo NPP 2 | CNT2 | Spain | Appointed in 1981/82, not established | ENDESA |
| Regodola NPP | CT | Spain | Appointed in 1981/82, not established | |
| Gösgen NPP | KKG | Switzerland | Operational management | Gösgen-Däniken AG |
| Brokdorf NPP | KBR | Germany | Operational management | PreussenElektra |
| Grohnde NPP | KWG | Germany | Operational management | PreussenElektra |
| Philippsburg NPP 2 | KKP-2 | Germany | Out of service | EnBW |
| Grafenrheinfeld NPP | KKG | Germany | Out of service | PreussenElektra |
| Emsland NPP | KKE | Germany | Operational management | RWE |
| Isar NPP 2 | KKI-2 | Germany | Operational management | PreussenElektra |
| Angra nuclear power plant 2 | ANG | Brazil | Operational management | Eletrobrás |
| Angra NPP 3 | ANG | Brazil | Under construction | Eletrobrás |
| Bushehr NPP 1 | BNPP | Iran | Operations management, modified to VVER-1000/446 | Nuclear Power Production & Developement Co. of Iran |
| Bushehr NPP 2 | BNPP | Iran | Construction canceled | Nuclear Power Production & Developement Co. of Iran |
Other Konvoi- type plants previously planned for Germany were the Wyhl nuclear power plant (south), the Hamm nuclear power plant , the Borken nuclear power plant , the Pfaffenhofen nuclear power plant and the Biblis C nuclear reactor .
Buschehr 1 nuclear power plant was completed by Atomstroiexport and the technical structure now corresponds to the Russian construction line VVER-1000/446, not the KWU pressurized water reactors.
Heavy water reactors
| Reactor block | designated voltage |
country | status | operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niederaichbach NPP | KKN | Germany | dismantled → green meadow | Niederaichbach GmbH nuclear power plant |
| Atucha NPP 1 | CNA1 | Argentina | Operational management | Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA |
| Atucha NPP 2 | CNA2 | Argentina | Operational management | Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA |
Research reactors
Furthermore, Kraftwerk Union operated two research reactors in Karlstein am Main in the 1960s and 1970s , the AEG test reactor (PR-10) and the AEG zero-energy reactor (TKA), which were taken over by AEG.
Web links
- Kraftwerk Union. Siemens Corporate Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kraftwerk Union AG and its service system
- ↑ Commercial register entry HRB 499, District Court Mülheim / Ruhr
- ↑ Siemens leaves the French nuclear company . World online ; Retrieved May 31, 2011.
- ↑ Signing of definitive binding agreements for the sale of AREVA NP's activities. December 22, 2017, accessed January 10, 2019 (en-en).
- ↑ Convention on Nuclear Safety ( Memento of March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.79 MB), Report of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Fourth Review Meeting in April 2008
- ↑ Würgassen power station. In: preussenelektra.de , accessed on July 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b Roland Kollert: The policy of latent proliferation: military use "peaceful" nuclear technology in Western Europe . In: DUV , 1994, ISBN 3-8244-4156-X
- ^ Christian Sebald: 33 years of operation, 20 years of demolition . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 20, 2015, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 7, 2017]).