Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant
| Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Unfinished remains of Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant
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| Country | Poland |
| Location | Żarnowiec |
| Coordinates | 54°44′35.64″N 18°05′20.05″E / 54.7432333°N 18.0889028°ECoordinates: 54°44′35.64″N 18°05′20.05″E / 54.7432333°N 18.0889028°E |
| Status | Cancelled |
| Construction began | March 31, 1982 |
| Power generation | |
| Units cancelled | 4 × 440 MW |
| The construction was ultimately cancelled on September 4, 1990 | |
The Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant (Polish: Elektrownia Jądrowa Żarnowiec) was supposed to be the first nuclear power plant in Poland. The construction was cancelled due to changes in the economical and political situation in Poland, in the Soviet Union and in the Eastern Bloc and due to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and the following years.
The location of the plant was chosen after several years of hydrological, seismological and demographic research commissioned for the purpose of determining the most suitable location. A site was located in the north of the country near the Baltic Sea, about 50 km northwest of Gdańsk, just to the south of its namesake village Żarnowiec, adjacent to Lake Żarnowiec which was to be used for cooling. The research also identified the site for a second plant in Klempicz in west-central Poland.
The plant was planned to occupy 70 ha of land area, while the entire complex with dedicated construction facilities and supporting buildings would take 425 ha. The design incorporated four VVER-440 pressurized water reactors of Soviet design produced in Škoda factories in Czechoslovakia, rated at 440 MWe each, for a combined power rating of 1600 MWe. The turbines and power generators were to be produced in Poland. An adjacent pumped-storage plant was to act as a load balancer and energy reservoir to ensure continued power delivery during reactor maintenance.
Completion of the first reactor block with a power rating of 465 MWe was planned for 1989, with the second one following in 1990. On the last day of 1983 the dates were adjusted to December 1990 and December 1991, respectively. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, there were plans to make modifications in order to bring the plant to Western security standards, as well as install reactor automation equipment from Siemens AG.
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