Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant
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| Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant | |
 The Leibstadt NPP
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| Country | Switzerland |
| Operator | Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG |
| Built | 1972 |
| Start of commercial operation | May 24, 1984 |
| Reactors | |
| Reactors active | 1 (1220 MW) |
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| Capacity | MW |
| Total power generation in 2006 | 9367 GWh |
| Average annual generation (last 5 yrs) | 8462 GWh |
| Net generation | 174,091 GWh |
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| Website http://www.kkl.ch/ |
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The Nuclear power station Leibstadt, abbreviated KKL, is in the municipality Leibstadt (canton Aargau, Switzerland) on the Rhine River close of the Aare delta and the German border. It is so far the last nuclear power station built in Switzerland.
A boiling water reactor built there by the company General Electric with 1,220 MW of electrical power serves the power demands of the area, the cooling is done via a cooling tower. The nuclear power station has produced approximately 8.5 TWh per year, slightly less than the power station Gösgen.
The power station is owned by Leibstadt AG (KKL), which is comprised of six Swiss energy companies: the Aare Tessin AG for electricity (Atel) with 27%, the northeastSwiss power stations AG (NOK) with 23%, the cent-ral-Swiss power stations AG (CKW) with 14%, the electricity company running castleAG (EGL) with 16%, the Berni power stations AG (BKW FMB energy AG) with 10% and the Aargauer of power stations AG (AEW energy AG) with 5 %. The management was originally done by the EGL, but with establishment of the Axpo it was consolidated within the Axpo group, so whereby today the NOK is the manager. The plant also houses a 380 kV switchyard for Beznau.
The KKL is an old project, planning began 1964 for a 600 MW reactor with river water cooling. With the prohibition of the river water cooling by the Upper House of Parliament in 1971 a cooling tower solution was favored. In the further planning process the output was increased to 600 and then 900 MW. In 1984 the plant started after an eleven-year construction period. After the Three Mile Island accident in the year 1979 new safety regulations were implemented, and the completion was delayed several years. While the budget was originally set for 2,000,000,000 Franks, and the end of construction it had amounted to over 5,000,000,000 Franks.
The history of the completion of the KKL reflected increasingly critical attitudes toward Nuclear power in Switzerland during the 1970s and 1980s, which culminated in the resistance the Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant.
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