Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant
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Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant located at Sessa Aurunca (Campania), in southern Italy. It was named after the river Garigliano.
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Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Coordinates | 41.25849°N 13.83492°E / 41.25849; 13.83492 |
Status | Being decommissioned |
Commission date | January 1, 1964 |
Decommission date | March 1, 1982 |
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Nuclear power station | |
Reactor type | BWR |
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Units decommissioned | 1 × 150 MW |
Nameplate capacity | 150 MW |
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Commons | Related media on Commons |
Consisting of one 150MWe BWR from General Electric, it operated from 1964 until 1982. First criticality was on 5 June 1963, with grid connection 1 January 1964 and full commercial operation from 1 June in that year. Garigliano was in 1964 the fourth BWR ever worldwide commercial operated, and had the second highest MW-capacity after Dresden Nuclear Power Plant unit 1.
Final shutdown was on 1 March 1982 and the plant was handed to the Italian nuclear decommissioning authority SOGIN on 1 November 1999.[1] Decommissioning is expected to take 27 years, with the total bill expected to reach $432.4 million.[2]