Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant located at Sessa Aurunca (

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), in southern

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It was named after the river

Garigliano The Garigliano () is a river in central Italy. It forms at the confluence of the rivers Gari (also known as the Rapido) and Liri. Garigliano is actually a deformation of "Gari-Lirano" (which in Italian means something like "Gari from the Liri") ...

. Consisting of one 150MWe BWR from

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, it operated from 1964 until 1982. First criticality was on 5 June 1963, with grid connection 1 January 1964 and full commercial operation from 1 June in that year. Garigliano was in 1964 the fourth BWR ever worldwide commercial operated, and had the second highest MW-capacity after

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unit 1. Final shutdown was on 1 March 1982 and the plant was handed to the Italian nuclear decommissioning authority

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on 1 November 1999. Decommissioning is expected to take 27 years, with the total bill expected to reach $432.4 million.

External links

Nuclear power in Italy
at the WNA site.
Nuclear power profile of Italy
at the NEA site.

References

Nuclear power stations using boiling water reactors Former nuclear power stations in Italy 1964 establishments in Italy 1982 disestablishments in Italy {{nuclear-power-stub