Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Brokdorf, or KBR) is a nuclear power plant near the municipality of Brokdorf in Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It has a single reactor with a nameplate capacity of 1440MWe. The plant began operations in October 1986, and was decommissioned on December 31st, 2021 as part of the German phaseout of nuclear power.
History
Construction began in 1975, and the power plant was commissioned on October 14, 1986. The plant was built by a first-of-its-kind joint venture between PreussenElektra AG and Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke, since 2002 part of Vattenfall. During the construction phase in the 1970s and 1980s there were violent protests against nuclear power at the location.[1]
In May 2021, the 1,400 MW HVDC subsea power cable NordLink between Norway and Germany's Wilster substation near Brokdorf was opened. With almost the same transmission power as the nuclear power plant used to generate, Norwegian hydro power can almost entirely replace the plant, or alternatively surplus German renewable energy can help supply Norway.
As has been planned since 2011 with the German nuclear phase out