The Montalto di Castro nuclear power station was a nuclear power plant at
Montalto di Castro
Montalto di Castro is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Lazio, located about northwest of Rome and about west of Viterbo.
It is home to a large fossil fuel powered power plant managed by ENEL and the l ...
in
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 ...
. 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 as a result of the
1987 referendum. In February 1988 the two units were eighty percent complete, representing about a five billion dollars investment.
It never operated.
Its area and some of the already built structures are now used by the
fossil-fuel power station
A fossil fuel power station is a thermal power station which burns a fossil fuel, such as coal or natural gas, to produce electricity. Fossil fuel power stations have machinery to convert the heat energy of combustion into mechanical energy, wh ...
"Alessandro Volta", the biggest
power station in Italy.
Reactor data
The nuclear power plant has two units:
References
External links
Nuclear power in Italyat the
WNA site.
Nuclear power stations using boiling water reactors
Unfinished nuclear reactors
Former nuclear power stations in Italy
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