Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant

Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant
The Mülheim-Kärlich NPP
CountryGermany
Coordinates50°24′29″N 7°29′24″E / 50.40806°N 7.49000°E / 50.40806; 7.49000
StatusDecommissioned
Construction began1975
Commission dateAugust 1, 1987
Decommission dateSeptember 9, 1988
OperatorRWE
Cooling towers1
Cooling sourceRhine River
Power generation
Units decommissioned1 x 1308 MW
External links
WebsiteSite c/o RWE
CommonsRelated media on Commons

The nuclear power station Mülheim-Kärlich lies on the Rhine, about 10 km northwest from Koblenz, close to the town Mülheim-Kärlich in Germany. The operating company was Société Luxembourgeoise de Centrales Nucléaires, a daughter company of RWE. It was the only nuclear power plant in the Rhineland-Palatinate after it was finished in 1986, however, due to problems with the building permit it only operated for 3 years and was taken offline in 1988. Subsequent attempts to bring the plant online continued until 1998 when the supreme court ruled for it to never be restarted.