Montalto di Castro nuclear power station
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The Montalto di Castro nuclear power station was a nuclear power plant at Montalto di Castro
in Italy
. Consisting of two BWR units each of 982 MWe, it was approaching completion in 1988 when the Italian government decided to close all nuclear plants. It never operated.
capacity
! style="width=10%; background:#CFCFCF"| Gross-
capacity
! style="width=11%; background:#CFCFCF"| Start of construction
! style="width=11%; background:#CFCFCF"| Mothballed
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| Montalto di Castro-1
| Boiling water reactor
| align="right" | 982 MW
| align="right" | 1009 MW
| align="right" | 1 July 1982
| align="right" | 1 January 1988
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| Montalto di Castro-2
| Boiling water reactor
| align="right" | 982 MW
| align="right" | 1009 MW
| align="right" | 1 July 1982
| align="right" | 1 July 1988
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Montalto di Castro
Montalto di Castro is a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Lazio, located about 90 km northwest of Rome and about 40 km west of Viterbo.It is home to a large power plant managed by ENEL.-External links:*...
in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. Consisting of two BWR units each of 982 MWe, it was approaching completion in 1988 when the Italian government decided to close all nuclear plants. It never operated.
Reactor data
The nuclear power plant has two units:capacity
! style="width=10%; background:#CFCFCF"| Gross-
capacity
! style="width=11%; background:#CFCFCF"| Start of construction
! style="width=11%; background:#CFCFCF"| Mothballed
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| Montalto di Castro-1
| Boiling water reactor
Boiling water reactor
The boiling water reactor is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor , also a type of light water nuclear reactor...
| align="right" | 982 MW
| align="right" | 1009 MW
| align="right" | 1 July 1982
| align="right" | 1 January 1988
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| Montalto di Castro-2
| Boiling water reactor
| align="right" | 982 MW
| align="right" | 1009 MW
| align="right" | 1 July 1982
| align="right" | 1 July 1988
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|}
External links
- Nuclear power in Italy at the WNAWorld Nuclear AssociationThe World Nuclear Association , formerly the Uranium Institute, is an international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the many companies that comprise the global nuclear industry...
site.