Zwentendorf

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Zwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in Lower Austria, with 3,280 inhabitants. It is located at 48°21′N 15°54′E, in the Tullnerfeld on the southern bank of the Danube. The place attained celebrity as the site of the only Austrian nuclear power station, which was established here, but its start-up was prevented by a popular vote on November 5, 1978. A breath-thin majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.

Instead there are in Zwentendorf the

  • Danube power station Altenwörth (1976)
  • the thermal power station Dürnrohr (1986)
  • the HVDC-back-to-back station Dürnrohr on the area of the transformer station Dürnrohr (1983, 1996 shutdown) with a transmission rate of 550 megawatts during DC voltage of 145 kV. This plant served Dürnrohr until 1996 for the energy exchange with Czechoslovakia (from 1993 Czech Republic) over a 380kV three-phase AC current leading from the HGÜ-Kurzkupplung to the transformer station Slavetice.

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