Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
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| Biblis Nuclear Power Plant | |
 Biblis, Unit A
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| Country | Germany |
| Operator | RWE |
| Built | 1969 |
| Start of commercial operation | August 25, 1974 |
| Reactors | |
| Reactors active | 2 |
| Power | |
| Capacity | 2,525 MW |
| Total power generation in 2006 | 15,306 GWh |
| Average annual generation (last 5 yrs) | 14,960 GWh |
| Net generation | 439,973 GWh |
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| Website Site c/o RWE |
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As of 22. Juli 2007
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The nuclear power station Biblis is in the South Hessian municipality of Biblis and consists of two blocks: Block A with an electrical gross achievement of 1200 megawatts and block B with an electrical gross output of 1300 megawatts. Both nuclear power station blocks are equipped with in each case a pressurized water reactor. The operator of this big electric power plant is the German concern RWE ("Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG") based in Essen.
On July 16, 1974 in block A the first nuclear chain reaction was introduced. Block A supplied power for the first time on August 25, 1974 to the public power grid. Nuclear start-up (criticality) took place in block B on March 25, 1976.
On December 17, 1987 an incident (INES 1) occurred: Coworkers overlooked a stop valve that had not been closed. In order to close the armature a valve was opened. Radioactive primary cooling agent discharged for a short time into the annular space. Because the discharge of the reactor cooling water took place outside of the reactor containment and thus a feedback from the sump over the safety feeding pumps and/or cooling pumps no longer would have been possible. The incident became public one year later, when an article in an American technical periodical (Nucleonic Weeks) was published. There have been other incidents afterwards, none of which has been rated over 1 on INES scale.
Biblis is the partner power station of the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant.
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 Block A, seen from South-West with two cooling towers |
 Security measures on South site |
 Ref-flow from cooling towers into the Rhine river (block A in the background) |
 Biblis Nuclear Power Plant is on the Rhine river. On the right side two cooling towers from block A |
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