Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant (KWO) is a nuclear power plant currently in the decommissioning phase. The plant is located in Obrigheim , Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis , on the banks of the Neckar and owned by EnBW . It operated a pressurized water reactor unit from 1969 to 2005. The defuelling process was completed in 2007, with spent fuel rods awaiting transport to an interim storage facility. In March 2017, EnBW tested the shipment of numerous castors by a barge on the Neckar to Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant .
14-438: KWO may refer to: Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant ( Kernkraftwerk Obrigheim ) Kraftwerke Oberhasli , Swiss company KWO Berlin , football club KWO, Overwatch Player Kojima World Order Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KWO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
28-520: A nearby train connection, and road transport is complicated by single-lane roads through a densely populated area, where large-scale barriers would have to be made. Since both nuclear plants were built on the banks of the Neckar, barge transport appeared to be the preferred way in spite of the 23 bridges and six locks it must pass. Even the green environment ministry in Baden-Württemberg saw
42-737: Is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany . It has branches in Bonn and Berlin . The ministry was established on 6 June 1986 in response to the Chernobyl disaster . The then Federal Government wanted to combine environmental authority under a new minister in order to face new environmental challenges more effectively. Furthermore The Greens had been formed a few years prior in part as an anti-nuclear environmentalist party and had achieved federal representation in 1983 and Joschka Fischer had been appointed minister of
56-527: Is a missing final repository for the 342 highly radioactive fuel rods. Obrigheim had an interim storage facility between 1998 and 2007. For EnBW not to have to build one, the fuel rods needed to be shipped to the Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant , which is about 40 kilometers away and still had space in its temporary storage. EnBW had considered transport by road, by rail and by barge. The former two options did not apply absent
70-669: The FDP was the first to pass an environment-related plank in the party platform in 1971. Prior to the establishment of the ministry of the environment, responsibilities for environmental issues were distributed among the ministries of the Interior , Agriculture and Health . The ministry's primary functions include: The ministry is led by the Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . The current Minister
84-558: The French occupation force, started to work in earnest towards peaceful use of nuclear energy. The district of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg were particularly interested in this development. In 1957 the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kernkraft Stuttgart (AKS) group was created in Baden-Württemberg. The minister-president and minister of the economics of Baden-Württemberg at the time, Hermann Veit took over
98-571: The environment for Hesse the previous year, marking the first state level red-green coalition in Germany. Thus the CDU/CSU intended to project a message of taking the environment seriously in an era in which the Greens were widely perceived as the only party with a policy focus on environmental issues, notwithstanding the fact that CSU-led Bavaria had had a state environment minister since 1971 and
112-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KWO&oldid=932954452 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant On May 5, 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany , with
126-529: The project of establishing a nuclear power plant, and looked towards the Calder Hall Gas cooled reactor in England for a design. In the spring of 1959, AKS chose an unusual reactor design: the organically moderated and cooled reactor (OMR). When the much smaller AEC demonstration facility at Piqua, Ohio suffered severe problems, they switched to a light water reactor in 1962. The reactor
140-496: The pylons is that insulators are mounted between the conductors to prevent short circuits by too close a conductor clearance with strong winds. To monitor radioactivity there were two meteorological towers, built as lattice steel masts. One of them was built in 1977/78 between the village of Asbach and Kirstätter Hof at 49 20 30 N and 9 02 47 E. In 2001, the 169 metres tall mast was demolished by explosives. A free-standing mobile phone transmission tower made of prefabricated concrete
154-636: The waterway as the best solution, but the Bundesministerium für Umwelt had critics. For the first time in Germany´s history, highly radioactive waste was transported on a river. Protests against the castor transports on the river had been arising. About 650 people followed a call for the "Neckar castorfrei" campaign to protest and march as "a sign before the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster of March 11, 2011". The remaining waste water
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#1732801922823168-602: Was built on its site. The other meteorological tower erected in 1962 is 99 metres tall, located close to the power plant, and still in use. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection ( German : Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz , pronounced [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʊmˌvɛlt naˈtuːɐ̯ˌʃʊt͡s nukleˈaːʁə ˈzɪçɐhaɪ̯t ʊnt fɛɐ̯ˈbʁaʊ̯xɐˌʃʊt͡s] ), abbreviated BMUV ,
182-544: Was built with a US license and public funding, and went online in 1969. During the 2003 European heat wave , Obrigheim was shut down due to high water temperature in the river. It was permanently shut down in 2005, having produced 90 billion kWh. Since 2005 the EnBW owned nuclear power in Obrigheim has been in the process of decommissioning; the spent fuel rods have been in wet storage since 2007. The salient barrier
196-419: Was evaporated. The electric power was transported by a single power line to Hüffenhardt substation. The power line carried four circuits, two for 220 kV and two for 110 kV. The circuits for 110 kV were mounted on the lowest of the three crossbars of the pylons, and the circuits for 220 kV on the middle and the upper crossbar of the pylons. An unusual feature of the power line between
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