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Table 12.1
Design of German nuclear power plants in power operation against military aircraft
crash
Generation/
building line
First
criticality
Military aircraft
crash design
Power plant
Type
1
Grafenrheinfeld (KKG)
PWR
3
09.12.1981
Phantom
2
Gundremmingen B (KRB B)
BWR
72
09.03.1984
Phantom
3
Grohnde (KWG)
PWR
3
01.09.1984
Phantom
4
Gundremmingen C (KRB C)
BWR
72
26.10.1984
Phantom
5
Philippsburg 2 (KKP 2)
PWR
3
13.12.1984
Phantom
6
Brokdorf (KBR)
PWR
3
08.10.1986
Phantom
7
Isar 2 (KKI 2)
PWR
4 (convoy)
15.01.1988
Phantom
8
Emsland (KKE)
PWR
4 (convoy)
14.04.1988
Phantom
9
Neckarwestheim 2 (GKN 2)
PWR
4 (convoy)
29.12.1988
Phantom
Table 12.2
Design of nuclear power plants in post-operational phase against military aircraft
crash
Generation/
building line
First
criticality
Military aircraft
crash design
Power plant
Type
1
Biblis A (KWB A)
PWR
2
16.07.1974
Not explicit
2
Biblis B (KWB B)
PWR
2
25.03.1976
Starfighter
3
Neckarwestheim 1 (GKN 1)
PWR
2
26.05.1976
Starfighter
4
Brunsb¨ ttel (KKB)
BWR
69
23.06.1976
Not explicit
5
Isar 1 (KKI 1)
BWR
69
20.11.1977
Not explicit
6
Unterweser (KKU)
PWR
2
16.09.1978
Starfighter
7
Philippsburg 1 (KKP 1)
BWR
69
09.03.1979
Not explicit
8
Kr¨mmel (KKK)
BWR
69
14.09.1983
Phantom
• a second group, which is protected against the accidental crash of a military
aircraft of model “Starfighter”
• and finally a third group, which is designed to resist the accidental crash of a fast
flying military aircraft of type “Phantom” with the worldwide highest protection
in this regard.
After the shutdown of the eight older nuclear power plants in 2011 in Germany,
only facilities of the third group remain in operation (cf. Table
12.1
). The eight
disconnected facilities, which are in what is called a post-operational phase, belong
to the first and the second group (cf. Table
12.2
). A large amount of radioactive
inventory remains in the fuel assembly storage pools and as the case may be in the
reactor vessels, even in the disconnected facilities, which must be reliably cooled
for several years. The risk of an aircraft impact is therefore still relevant for these
power plants as well, until all inventory has been loaded into the Castor containers
after the decay time.
