Mochovce
Mochovce (Hungarian Mohi ) is a village in Slovakia , since 1990 part of the municipality of Kalná nad Hronom , previously an independent municipality. Mochovce was first mentioned in writing as Muhy in 1295 and belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary in Bars County until 1918 . The village, which was predominantly inhabited by Hungarians , then became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia , but became part of Hungary again between 1938 and 1945 due to the First Vienna Arbitration . Then it became part of Czechoslovakia again and in 1980 had 343 inhabitants. In the 1980s, the Mochovce nuclear power plant was built and the village was largely demolished. Only the baroque church and the cemetery are still standing.
The near-surface Mochovce repository for low- and medium-level radioactive waste has been operated near Mochovce since 2001 . Storage chambers were built in neogene clays; these have a storage capacity of 22,320 m 3 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ' N , 18 ° 27' E