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Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant

Brunsbüttel, Germany

The 1073rd largest power station in the world

806 MW · Capacity

The Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Brunsbüttel near Hamburg, Germany. It is owned 67% by Vattenfall and 33% by E.ON. It started operation in 1976 and has a gross power production of 806 MW. During its lifetime, it produced 130,000 GW hours of electricity. The value of this electricity is about 9.1 billion Euros before calculation of the nuclear waste management. As part of the nuclear power phase-out, it was taken out of service in 2011. It had been idle since 2007.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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