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The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant in Germany, which was shut down in 2015. Nuclear power was used in Germany from the 1960s until it was fully phased out in April 2023. German nuclear power began with research reactors in the 1950s and 1960s, with the first commercial plant coming online in 1969.
Kassel Power Plant: Kassel: 34: Kempten Waste Power Plant: Kempten: 60 200 Kiel Power Plant: Kiel: 354: 113 371 Kirchmöser Power Station: Brandenburg: 160: 70 230 traction current Kirchlengern Power Plant: Kirchlengern: 182: 66 217
Nuclear power plant at Grafenrheinfeld, Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition announced on 30 May 2011, that Germany's 17 nuclear power stations will be shut down by 2022, in a policy reversal following Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. [38] Germany's power mix over time, tracing the decline of nuclear power.
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power.
Alternatives are now under consideration, including more solar and wind power, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, gas- and coal-fired power plants as well as possibly a return to nuclear power.
The plant's single reactor had a nameplate capacity of 1,345 megawatts. The plant operated from 1981 to June 28, 2015, when it was taken offline as part of the phase out policy for nuclear power in Germany. As a result of the plant's closure, Germany has increasingly relied on coal, natural gas, and renewable energy to generate electricity. [1]
Here is a look at Germany's politically charged debate on nuclear power. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to ...
The site of former Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant. This table lists stations that are permanently shut down. Listed on 1985, 2005-2022 ongoing. ... Germany 1986: 2011 ...