Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant

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Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant
The Leibstadt NPP
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	47°36′11″N 8°11′05″E / 47.60306°N 8.18472°E / 47.60306; 8.18472
Status	Operational
Construction began	1972
Commission date	May 24, 1984
Owner	Leibstadt AG
Operator	Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	BWR
Cooling towers	1
Cooling source	Rhine River
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 1,220 MW
Nameplate capacity	1,220 MW
Capacity factor	87.6%
Annual net output	9,367 GW·h
External links
Website	www.kkl.ch
Commons	Related media on Commons
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The Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt, KKL) is located near Leibstadt, canton of Aargau, Switzerland, on the Rhine and close to the border with Germany. Commissioned in 1984, it is the youngest and most powerful of the country's four operating reactors.

Its General Electric-built boiling water reactor produces 1,220 MW of electrical power. The nuclear power station has produced approximately 8.5 TWh per year, slightly less than the Goesgen Nuclear Power Plant.

It is owned by Leibstadt AG (KKL), a consortium of six Swiss energy companies: Axpo Holding AG (split between CKW AG with 13.6%, Axpo Power AG with 22.8% and Axpo Solutions AG with 16.3%), Alpiq AG with 27.4%, BKW Energie AG with 14.5% and AEW energy AG with 5.4%. Management of the power plant was originally the responsibility of EGL AG before being transferred to Axpo.