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Germany's oldest remaining nuclear reactor has been shut down, part of a move initiated four years ago to switch off all its nuclear plants by 2022.
Bavaria's environment ministry said Sunday that the Grafenrheinfeld reactor in the southern German state was taken offline as scheduled overnight, the news agency dpa reported. Grafenrheinfeld went into service in 1981. It's the first reactor to close since Germany switched off the oldest eight of its 17 nuclear reactors in 2011, just after Japan's Fukushima disaster. The next to close will be one of two reactors at the Gundremmingen plant in Bavaria, which is set to shut in late 2017. The rest will be closed by the end of 2022.
Germany aims to generate 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:48AM
My power station had two very old Magnox reactors. The whole power station could put out a maximum of 246MWe on the coldest days. At the height of summer it could do about 242MWe. It was on a tidal estuary and warmed the water up by 9C. The fish were very happy there. Output varied sinusoidally with the tide. Thermal efficiency was about 25%. Reactor gas inlet temperature was about 180C and outlet was 360C.
Primary coolant was carbon dioxide at 126psig.
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