Kahl nuclear power plant
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 3 '33 " N , 8 ° 59' 14" E | |
| Country: | Germany | |
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| Operator: | VAK Kahl GmbH | |
| Project start: | July 1, 1958 | |
| Commercial operation: | Feb. 1, 1962 | |
| Shutdown: | Nov 25, 1985 | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
1 (16 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 1985: | 83 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 2,046 GWh | |
| Was standing: | Oct 6, 2006 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Kahl nuclear power plant (also Kahl experimental nuclear power plant , VAK ) with a boiling water reactor and an electrical output of 15 megawatts near Großwelzheim in Lower Franconia was the first commercial nuclear power plant in the Federal Republic of Germany. The power plant was commissioned by RWE and Bayernwerk , and the plant was built by Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) with General Electric as licensor and supplier for the boiling water reactor. A few years after the construction of the Kahl nuclear power plant (VAK), the Großwelzheim superheated steam reactor (HDR) was built on the site, which has now also been shut down and dismantled.
history
The VAK power plant went into operation on November 13, 1960 and on June 17, 1961, electricity was fed into the public grid for the first time. It was the technical successor to General Electric's 24 MW nuclear power plant in Vallecitos , USA, which began commercial operations in 1957.
The experimental reactor was in operation for a total of 150,000 hours and delivered 2.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. According to the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation , 90 defects and incidents occurred during operation, seven of which were classified as serious.
After more than 25 years of operation, the power plant was shut down on November 25, 1985. Dismantling has been prepared since 1986, and the first dismantling work began in 1988 . In 2005 the characteristic yellow dome was removed. Remote- controlled small excavators were used to dismantle the reactor casing due to the high level of radioactivity in the reinforced concrete. The demolition took longer than the operation and at 150 million euros also cost considerably more than the construction; this is also due to the fact that in addition to the dismantling itself, the testing of techniques for the dismantling of other plants was carried out.
The 53 m high chimney was dismantled on July 31, 2007 as the last striking component of the NPP. At the end of 2008, the dismantling work on the reactor building and all activated parts of the plant was completed; all other parts of the building and plant were demolished in June and July 2010. Großwelzheim is the first location in Germany where two nuclear power plants have been completely removed. When the municipality of Karlstein was formed from the previously independent towns of Dettingen am Main and Großwelzheim in 1975, the atomic symbol was included in the newly created and still valid municipal coat of arms because of the nuclear power plant.
Naming
Although the nuclear power plant was not built on the mark of the municipality of Kahl am Main , but on that of the neighboring municipality of Großwelzheim (today Karlstein am Main ), it was called the Kahl experimental nuclear power plant from the start . There were the following reasons for this:
- "Kahl" is much shorter than "Großwelzheim". This not only simplifies the spelling, but should also offer linguistic relief to the Americans who worked in the power plant in the early years.
- Both the adjacent (and in the meantime also closed) coal-fired power station in Dettingen , as well as the VAK and the HDR, were served by post from Kahl. The Karlstein locality Kimmelsteich to the east of the former power plant site protrudes into the Kahler district and is also supplied by post from Kahl.
- Großwelzheim does not have a train station and was therefore unsuitable as a destination. Kahl, on the other hand, has a train station.
documentary
Filmmaker Haro Senft , a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto , shot the documentary Kahl about the construction and commissioning of the nuclear power plant , which was nominated for an Oscar in 1962 .
Data of the reactor block
The Kahl nuclear power plant had one power plant unit :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
switching off processing |
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| VAK bald | Boiling water reactor | 15 MW | 16 MW | 07/01/1958 | 06/17/1961 | 02/01/1962 | 11/25/1985 |
Web links
- Nuclear power plants Plague: VAK Kahl (Bavaria)
- kernfragen.de: Video of the dismantling (mpg; 125 MB)
- NUKEM Technologies: Kahl Nuclear Power Test Plant (VAK), Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ focus.de: Beginning and end of the first German pile from June 17, 2011
- ↑ FAZ.net: When grass grows over the nuclear power plant from March 17, 2011
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Kernkraft: Disassembled and shredded from November 16, 2006
- ↑ heise de: Sheep as sensors from November 15, 2010.
- ↑ Versuchsatomkraftwerk Kahl GmbH: 40 Years Versuchsatomkraftwerk Kahl , Karlstein am Main, October 1998, p. 10.
- ↑ Documentary "Kahl" by Haro Senft, 1961 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.oberhausener-manifest.com
- ↑ Entry in the Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Germany, Federal Republic of: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
