Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station

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Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Plant
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The NPP to the left, to the right the Steam Power Plant Alessandro Volta
Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station
Official nameCentrale elettronucleare Alto Lazio
CountryItaly
Coordinates 42°21′31.68″N11°31′53.04″E / 42.3588000°N 11.5314000°E / 42.3588000; 11.5314000
StatusCancelled
Construction began1 July 1982
Decommission date
  • 1 January 1988
Owner(s)Enel
Operator(s)Enel
Nuclear power station
Reactor type BWR
Power generation
Units cancelled2 x 982 MW
Nameplate capacity 2,018 MW
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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.

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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:

UnitReactor typeNet capacityGross capacityStart of constructionMothballed
Montalto di Castro-1 [2] BWR/6
(Mark III) [3] [4]
982 MW1009 MW1 July 19821 January 1988
Montalto di Castro-2 [5] BWR/6
(Mark III)
982 MW1009 MW1 July 19821 July 1988

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References

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  3. Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment Proceedings 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 ..."
  4. The Non-Nuclear Conversion of the Montalto BWR/6-Mark III Plant: A Technical and Economical Assessment of the Proposed Options
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