Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station explained
| Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Plant |
| Name Official: | Centrale elettronucleare Alto Lazio |
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 42.3588°N 11.5314°W |
| Owner: | Enel |
| Operator: | Enel |
| Construction Began: | 1 July 1982 |
| Np Reactor Type: | BWR |
| Ps Units Cancelled: | 2 x 982 MW |
| Ps Electrical Capacity: | 2,018 |
| Status: | C |
The Montalto di Castro nuclear power station was a nuclear power plant at Montalto di Castro in Italy. 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.[1] It never operated.
Its area and some of the already built structures are now used by the fossil-fuel power station "Alessandro Volta", the biggest power station in Italy.
Reactor data
The nuclear power plant has two units:
| Unit | Reactor type | Net capacity | Gross capacity | Start of construction | Mothballed |
|---|
| Montalto di Castro-1 [2] | BWR/6
(Mark III)[3] [4] | 982 MW | 1009 MW | 1 July 1982 | 1 January 1988 |
| Montalto di Castro-2 [5] | BWR/6
(Mark III) | 982 MW | 1009 MW | 1 July 1982 | 1 July 1988 | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Symposium: Nuclear Technology in Southern Africa . 21 June 1990 . . 262 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220414134538/https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/35/091/35091643.pdf . 14 April 2022 . 14 April 2022 .
- Web site: Nuclear Power Reactor Details - Montalto di Castro-1 . 1982 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100911162207/https://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=IT&refno=7 . 11 September 2010 . 18 July 2022.
- Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability AssessmentProceedings of the 5th EuReDatA Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, April 9–11, 1986, page 663, "An extensive probabilistic safety study was performed for the Alto Lazio Nuclear Plant, a two-unit BWR/6 plant presently being constructed ..."
- https://energyresources.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1412890 The Non-Nuclear Conversion of the Montalto BWR/6-Mark III Plant: A Technical and Economical Assessment of the Proposed Options
- Web site: Nuclear Power Reactor Details - Montalto di Castro-2 . 1982 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604101218/https://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=IT&refno=9 . 4 June 2011 . 18 July 2022.
