Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant

Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52°02′07″N 9°24′48″E
Status	Decommissioned
Construction began	1975
Commission date	4 September 1984
Decommission date	31 December 2021
Owners	83.3% PreussenElektra 16.7% Stadtwerke Bielefeld
Operator	GKKG Grohnde (PreussenElektra)
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Cooling towers	2
Cooling source	Weser River
Power generation
Units operational	1 x 1,430 MW
Nameplate capacity	1,430 MW
Capacity factor	87.8%
Annual net output	10,996 GW·h
External links
Website	www.preussenelektra.de/de/unsere-kraftwerke/kraftwerkgrohnde.html
Commons	Related media on Commons

Grohnde nuclear power plant on the Weser river, the village of Grohnde is visible to the right

View from the Ohrbergpark to the small village Tündern and to the Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant beside the river Weser in the Upper Weser Valley and the Weser Uplands. The yellow fields are rapeseed fields.

The former Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant is located in Grohnde in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony. It has one reactor that used 193 fuel assemblies and utilized both enriched uranium and MOX fuel. In 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1998 the reactor produced more net electricity for the respective year than any other reactor in the world.

The plant is of the pressurized water reactor type, using four water based coolant cycles, kept under high pressure.

In 2021 the plan passed the mark of 400 TWh total low-carbon electricity output since it was connected to the grid. Over the period the plant has prevented 400 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

The plant ceased power operation on 31 December 2021 as part of Germany's phaseout of nuclear power.