Caorso Nuclear Power Plant

Caorso Nuclear Power Plant
Outside view of the plant, 2005
Country	Italy
Coordinates	45.07206°N 9.87214°E / 45.07206; 9.87214
Status	Being decommissioned
Construction began	1968–1970
Commission date	January 1, 1970
Decommission date	1990
Operator	SOGIN
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	BWR
Power generation
Units decommissioned	1 × 860 MW
Nameplate capacity	860 MW
External links
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Caorso Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant at Caorso in Italy. It featured a single Boiling Water Reactor, a BWR 4 with a Mark II-Containment from General Electric, with an electrical net output of 860 MW, used low-enriched uranium as fuel, was moderated and cooled by normal light water.

It operated from 1981 until 1990, when it was closed following the referendum of November 1987. It was by far the most modern and in terms of capacity biggest nuclear power plant to go online in Italy. The Italian nuclear decommissioning agency SOGIN started the process of decommissioning the plant in January 2014.[1]

Gallery

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  Outside view
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  The fuel pool
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  The fuel pool
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  The area above the reactor

External links

• Nuclear power in Italy Archived 2020-06-11 at the Wayback Machine at the WNA site.

References

1. Laraia, Michele (2017). Advances and Innovations in Nuclear Decommissioning. Oxford: Woodhead Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-08101-122-5.