Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant
Gundremmingen, Germany
The 639th largest power station in the world
The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power station in Germany. It was located in Gundremmingen, district of Günzburg, Bavaria. It was operated by Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH, a joint operation of RWE Power AG (75%) and PreussenElektra (25%). Unit B was shut down at the end of 2017. Unit C, the last boiling water reactor in Germany, was shut down on New Year's Eve 2021, as part of the German nuclear phase out. However, Gundremmingen unit C as well as the other two German nuclear reactors shut down that day (Brokdorf and Grohnde) remained capable of restarting operations in March 2022. In November 1975, Unit A was the site of the first fatal accident in a nuclear power plant in Germany, though the accident was unrelated to radiation. After a later major incident in 1977, Unit A was never returned to service. The reinforced concrete structure of the cooling towers was dismantled with explosives on 25 October 2025. The decommissioning of the remaining structures is expected to be finished by 2040. RWE is reusing the site as the location of a 400 MW / 700 MWh battery storage facility.
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