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🇮🇹 Caorso

Name: Caorso
Address: Italy

Nuclear power plant · Italy

Shut Down

Capacity≈840 MW

Units1

First Online1981

Construction Start1970

Shut Down1990

Reactor TypeBWR

Coordinates45.072, 9.872

Caorso is a nuclear power station in Italy. Of its 1 recorded unit(s), 1 permanently shut down. Combined net capacity of the operating units is about 840 MW. The first unit reached commercial operation in 1981. Reactor technology on site: BWR.

Reactor units at Caorso

Unit	Status	Reactor type	Net capacity	Key dates
Caorso	Shut Down	BWR BWR-4 (Mark 2)	840 MW	Construction 1970 · Grid 1981 · Shutdown 1990

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