Global InformationKaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant information
| Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| Country | Switzerland |
| Location | Kaiseraugst (AG) |
| Coordinates | 47°32′24″N 7°44′56″E / 47.54000°N 7.74889°E |
| Status | Project abandoned |
| Construction began | 1974 |
| Commission date | never |
| Operator(s) | Kernkraftwerk Kaiseraugst AG |
| Power generation | |
| Units planned | 1 x 1,000 MW |
The site for the Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant is located in north-west Switzerland beside the river at Kaiseraugst, a short distance to the east of Basel.
Plans to build and operate the power plant were the subject of increasingly high-profile controversy over many years. The project failed because of bitter and ultimately effective opposition from the local population and because it became a cause célèbre for environmentalist pressure groups in Switzerland and across German speaking central Europe more generally. The matter hit the headlines most powerfully in 1975, with an eleven-week occupation of the site by a large number of people (estimated, initially, at around 15,000 people). The project was finally abandoned in 1988.[1]
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