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    Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens The Beznau nuclear power plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Beznau [KKB]) is a nuclear power plant of the Swiss energy...
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  • Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens Nuclear power in Switzerland is generated by three nuclear power plants, with a total of four operational reactors...
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    NOK is the manager. The plant also houses a 380  kV switchyard for the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant. Planning for the KKL began in 1964 for a 600 MW reactor...
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    security of nuclear installations; it supervises the nuclear power plants at Beznau, Gösgen, Leibstadt and Mühleberg, the research reactors at the Paul Scherrer...
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    1908, the former Motor AG connected its low-pressure hydropower plant at Beznau, Aargau, with the storage power plant at Löntsch, Glarus to the power grid...
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  • construction of two new nuclear reactors. These are unofficially known as Beznau 3 and Mühleberg 2 from the locations where they should be built. In August...
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    turbine division to bring together Whittle and Hayne Constant's work. In Beznau, Switzerland the first commercial reheated/recuperated unit generating 27...
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    small-scale hydro power plants with nameplate capacities up to 10 megawatts. Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens There are four nuclear power plants, with...
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  • plans to build replacement plants for the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant and Beznau Nuclear Power Plant. BKW FMB Energie Switzerland Electricity generation...
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  • Dodewaard Bohunice Mochovce Barsebäck Forsmark Oskarshamn R4 Ringhals Ågesta Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens Berkeley Bradwell Calder Hall Chapelcross...
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  • Switzerland. The company was founded in 1909 by Johann Knecht, a forester from Beznau. As of 2009, the company has 800 employees. It operates a range of public...
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    Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens The Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg, KKM) is a formerly operational nuclear power...
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    gas-powered facility. Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens As of 2013[update], the five operational Swiss nuclear reactors were Beznau 1 and 2, Gösgen,...
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    of Switzerland's five nuclear power plants are in the canton of Aargau (Beznau I + II and Leibstadt). Additionally, the many rivers supply enough water...
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  • Type Model Status Capacity (MW) Begin building Commercial operation Closed Beznau 1 PWR WH 2-loops Operational 365 1 Sep 1965 1 Sep 1969 (2029) 2 PWR WH 2-loops...
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  • Nuclear Power Station) 1964 Beznau 2 730   Switzerland 47°33′07″N 08°13′40″E / 47.55194°N 8.22778°E / 47.55194; 8.22778 (Beznau Nuclear Power Plant) 1969...
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    nuclear power plants, which require large quantities of cooling water. The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant (Block A in 1969, Block B in 1971) was opened without...
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    the channels at a pressure of 5.79 MPa and at a temperature of 378 °C. Beznau Gösgen Leibstadt Mühleberg Lucens It was intended to operate until the end...
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    power demonstration in 25 years. Demonstrators marched peacefully near the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in Switzerland, which started operating...
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    industrial center, mostly processing wood. In 1902, in the former hamlet of Beznau a hydroelectric plant was built. In 1948 an oil-fired power plant was built...
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  • Notes Beznau Nuclear Power Plant, reactor I 365 Döttingen 47°33′09″N 8°13′43″E / 47.5524656°N 8.2285935°E / 47.5524656; 8.2285935 (Beznau Nuclear...
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    overexploitation of the Aar and Rhine waters, already used for the cooling of the Beznau and Mühleberg stations and in numerous hydroelectric plants. In March 1971...
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    Power Plant in Sweden provides nuclear heat generation. In Switzerland, the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant provides heat to about 20,000 people. However, district...
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  • connecting to ZWILAG (an interim nuclear waste storage facility) and the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant. Döttingen station was called Döttingen Klingnau between...
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    power demonstration in 25 years. Demonstrators marched peacefully near the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in Switzerland, which started operating...
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  • years, and in doing so, would close the three oldest reactors in 2017: Beznau 1, Beznau 2, and Muehleberg. The referendum failed, with 54.2% of voters rejecting...
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    following irregularities involving the reactor pressure vessel at the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, near the German border, and near her...
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    electricity to a suburb of the country's capital between 1964 and 1974. The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland has been generating electricity since...
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    5541111°N 8.2242306°E / 47.5541111; 8.2242306 1100–1200 Became headquarters of Beznau Nuclear Power Plant construction in 1965, converted to restaurant and hotel...
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    power demonstration in 25 years. Demonstrators marched peacefully near the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in Switzerland, which started operating...
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