Multipurpose research reactor Karlsruhe

Multipurpose research reactor Karlsruhe
Multipurpose research reactor in April 1965
location
Coordinates	49 ° 6 '15 "  N , 8 ° 25' 56"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '15 "  N , 8 ° 25' 56"  E
Country:	Germany
Data
Project start:	1961
Commercial operation:	September 29, 1965
Shutdown:	May 3, 1984
Active reactors (gross):	0 (0 MW)
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (58 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	5000 GWh
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The multi-purpose research reactor Karlsruhe (abbreviation MZFR ) was a heavy water cooled and moderated pressurized water reactor on the premises of the Karlsruhe Research Center (today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ).

The plant was built between 1961 and 1965. The power plant had a gross electrical output of 58 megawatts and was critical for the first time on September 29, 1965 .

46 reportable events were counted during operation. Operations were hampered by leaks in the 1960s that released heavy water and radioactive substances. On March 2, 1967, six employees were contaminated due to an accident. From the 1970s onwards, the reactor ran largely trouble-free.

Until the reactor was shut down on May 3, 1984, the MZFR had generated around 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity for the public grid. The reactor also served as a test facility for testing future heavy water reactor technologies.

The dismantling work for the dismantling is currently going on to the "green field". According to the original plans, the MZFR should have been completely eliminated by the end of 2006. It is now planned to start demolishing the reactor building in 2019. All buildings used for nuclear power are to be dismantled by the end of 2021.

The reactor parts (especially metal parts) that have become radioactive through neutron activation during the years of operation are collected separately when the reactor is dismantled and temporarily stored on the premises of Kerntechnische Abfall Karlsruhe GmbH .

Data of the reactor block

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
MZFR	Pressurized heavy water reactor	52 MW	57 MW	December 01, 1961	03/09/1966	December 19, 1966	05/03/1984

Web links

• Nuclear power plants plague : MZFR Karlsruhe
• WAK reprocessing plant Karlsruhe Rückbau- und Entsorgungs-GmbH (EWN Group): Information on the dismantling of the multipurpose research reactor , as of April 13, 2015 ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Office for Radiation Protection: Nuclear Power Plants in Germany - Notifiable Events since Commissioning, as of April 13 , 2015 ( Memento from April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Joachim Radkau & Lothar Hahn: The rise and fall of the German nuclear industry. oekom, Munich 2013, pp. 141 ff., 184 f., 280
3. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment: Multipurpose Research Reactor (MZFR)
4. ↑ ka-news.de: Karlsruhe will not get a new interim storage facility for radioactive waste from February 7, 2012
5. ↑ IAEO: PRIS - Country Statistics - Germany (English)