The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Grafenrheinfeld, or KKG but the Gösgen plant in Switzerland shares the abbreviation) is located near Grafenrheinfeld, south of Schweinfurt in Main. Commencement of construction was in 1974, start-up took place 1981. It is a German third generation PWR with an electrical net power of 1345 megawatts. E.ON is the operator with a location in Hanover. The two cooling towers with a height of 143 m are visible from far away. Like with almost all other nuclear plants, emporary storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel are present on site. There is an information center at the power station.

In the anti-nuclear children's book Die Wolke (1987), the power plant undergoes a fictional meltdown.

Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant
Official name	Kernkraftwerk Grafenrheinfeld
Country	Germany
Locale	Grafenrheinfeld
Construction began	January 1, 1975
Commission date	December 21, 1981
Owner(s)	E.ON
Operator(s)	E.ON
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1,345 MW
Reactor type(s)	PWR
Reactor supplier(s)	Siemens
Turbine information
Manufacturer(s)	Siemens
Power generation information
Installed capacity	1,345 MW
Annual generation	9,425 GW·h
Net generation	235,027 GW·h

Emsland Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear reactor located in the district of Emsland, Germany just south of the Lingen plant. The reactor has 193 fuel elements totaling a core weight of 103 tons. It is a Konvoi type reactor, and is said to be one of the safest German nuclear power stations.

Emsland Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Locale	Emsland
Status	Operational
Construction began	1982
Commission date	June 20, 1988
Owner(s)	87.5% RWE 12.5% E.ON
Operator(s)	KKW Lippe-Ems
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1,363 MW
Reactor type(s)	PWR
Reactor supplier(s)	Siemens
Turbine information
Manufacturer(s)	Siemens
Power generation information
Installed capacity	1,363 MW
Annual generation	11,148 GW·h
Net generation	198,829 GW·h

Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Geesthacht near Hamburg, Germany. It was taken into operation in 1983 and is owned 50% by Vattenfall and 50% by E.ON, and operated by the Swedish Vattenfall. Its gross power production is 1,401 MW, using a boiling water reactor. The reactor is the world's largest of its type in commercial operation.

Since 1986, an overly high number of cases of leukemia have been found in the area around the power plant. While Krümmel has been suspected, it has not been possible to establish the cause of the cases.

On June 28, 2007, a short circuit caused a fire in the transformer of the power plant and required the plant to be shut down. Power outages were experienced in the neighboring areas. The sequence of events caused the dismissal and resignation of several Vattenfall Europe AG employees.

On June 21, 2009, the Krümmel reactor was restarted for the first time since the 2007 fire, and the plant started to produce electricity again but was shutdown for the second time on July 4, 2009, only a few days after its two year long repair-period. The shutdown was caused by a short-circuit in a transformer that was very similar to what caused the June, 2007 fire. The reactor shut down normally and was not affected, but it will be another year before the plant can re-open again because new transformers will not be available until April or May 2010. The plant's general manager resigned. In a press conference July 9, Ernst Michael Züfle, head of the nuclear division of Vattenfall, acknowledged that there was damage to "perhaps a few fuel elements." Even before the shutdown, foreign bodies—sharp shards of metal from earlier work that should have been flushed—were found to have ended up, potentially dangerously, in the reactor and had, to some degree, been cleaned out. On July 7, Wulf Bernotat, CEO of E.on, wrote in a sharply worded letter to Vattenfall management in Sweden that his company was "appalled" by the handling of safety procedures at the plant, according to a lengthy report in Spiegel. The report went on to discuss how the accident could impact the German national debate about nuclear power plant license extensions.

Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Status	Mothballed
Construction began	1974
Commission date	September 28, 1983
Owner(s)	50% E.ON 50% Vattenfall
Operator(s)	Vattenfall
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1,402 MW
Reactor type(s)	BWR
Reactor supplier(s)	Siemens
Turbine manufacturer(s)	Siemens
Power generation information
Installed capacity	1,402 MW
Annual generation	10,178 GW·h
Net generation	195,922 GW·h

Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Kleinensiel (Municipality of Stadland), in close proximity to Nordenham.

When it first started up, it was the largest nuclear reactor in the world. It has 193 fuel assemblies. In 2004, the measured radioactivity released into the air amounted to 3.8 TBq/a for all radionuclides, and 14 TBq/a in the water.

Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Construction began	July 1, 1972
Commission date	September 29, 1978
Operator(s)	E.ON
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1,410 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation	8,891 GW·h
Net generation	264,888 GW·h

The Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant is located in Hamelin-Pyrmont in Lower Saxony. It has one reactor that uses 193 fuel assemblies and utilizes both Enriched Uranium and MOX fuel. In the years 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1998 the reactor produced the most net electricity for the respective year than any other reactor in the world. The Plant is of the pressurized water reactor type, using four water based coolant cycles, kept under high pressure.

Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Construction began	1975
Commission date	September 4, 1984
Owner(s)	83.3% E.ON 16.7% Stadtwerke Bielefeld
Operator(s)	GKKG Grohnde
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1430 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation	10,996 GW·h
Net generation	235,649 GW·h

Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Brokdorf, or KBR) is close to the municipality of Brokdorf in Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It started in October 1986 by a first-of-its-kind joint venture between PreussenElektra and Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke. During the construction phase in the 70's and 80's, there were violent protests against nuclear power at the location.

The Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant is a pressurized water reactor with uranium dioxide fuel elements, which are used in degrees of enrichment of 1.9%, 2.5% and 3.5%. It also uses MOX fuel. There are 193 fuel assemblies In the reactor, with a total heavy-metal weight of 103 tons. The power station has a thermal output of 3765 MW, as well as an electrical output of 1440 MW. It belongs to the 3rd PWR generation in Germany. With a net generation of just under 12 billion a kWh, it was the worldwide leader in 2005.

The decommissioning of the plant is planned for 2018.

Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany
Locale	Brokdorf, Steinburg
Status	Operational
Construction began	1975
Commission date	October 14, 1986
Owner(s)	E.ON (80%) Vattenfall Europe (20%)
Operator(s)	E.ON
Constructor(s)	Siemens
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1,440 MW
Reactor type(s)	PWR
Reactor supplier(s)	Siemens
Turbine information
Manufacturer(s)	Siemens
Power generation information
Installed capacity	1,440 MW
Annual generation	11,459 GW·h
Net generation	197,402 GW·h

The Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant (abrv. KGR in German), also known as Lubmin Nuclear Power Plant, was the largest nuclear power station in East Germany before closure shortly after the German reunification. The plants were of the VVER-440/V-230 type, which was the first generation of Soviet Union designed plants. The site is located in Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

In the late 1989 nuclear regulatory bodies of countries operating VVER plants did a safety analysis and produced numerous requirements for backfitting old safety systems, which were stated to have been necessary in almost all areas. All reactors were closed soon after the reunification, with restart conditional on conforming to stricter and very different West Germany safety standards. There was a public discussion about the safety of the power station.

Convinced that backfitting to the new safety standards was not economically feasible, the new unified German government decided in early 1991 to decommission the four units, close Unit 5, which was undergoing testing at the time, and halt construction of the rest of the units there plus two VVER-1000s at the Stendal Nuclear Power Plant.

The district heating from the plant was made up by oil imports and in 1995 by a new natural gas plant. Decommissioning of units 1 through 5 began in 1995, making Greifswald one of the first nuclear power stations in Germany to go through the process.

The Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant came into focus again in 1996 when it was decided to move 235 unspent fuel assemblies to the Hungarian Paks Nuclear Power Plant, which could be done since it is of the same design.

At the peak of the plants operation, about 10,000 people were employed full time there. Currently, there are still about 1,000 working on decommissioning and other activities at the site.

Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant Reactor

Unit	Type	Net Power	Commercial operation	Shut down
Greifswald - 1 (KGR 1)	WWER-440/230	408 MW	12.07.1974	14.02.1990
Greifswald - 2 (KGR 2)	WWER-440/230	408 MW	16.04.1975	14.02.1990
Greifswald - 3 (KGR 3)	WWER-440/230	408 MW	01.05.1978	28.02.1990
Greifswald - 4 (KGR 4)	WWER-440/230	408 MW	01.11.1979	22.07.1990
Greifswald - 5 (KGR 5)	WWER-440/213	408 MW	01.11.1989	24.11.1989
Greifswald - 6 (KGR 6)	WWER-440/213	408 MW	-	-
Greifswald - 7 (KGR 7)	WWER-440/213	408 MW	-	-
Greifswald - 8 (KGR 8)	WWER-440/213	408 MW	-	-

Incidents

• December 7, 1975 - An electrician wanted to show his apprentice how to bridge electrical circuits. He decided to do a short-circuit on the primary winding one of the Unit 1 pumps by developing an arc following the edge of a wiring loom. The fire in the main trough destroyed the current supply and the control lines of 5 main coolant pumps (a single unit has 6 pumps). The fire was brought under control fast by the fire-brigade and the pumps could be temporarily repaired since the proper actions were taken immediately. After this near disaster, fire protection within the power station was substantially strengthened and separate electrical lines for each pump were introduced. The case was only released to the public in 1989. A few hours after the incident the IAEA was already informed by Soviet authorities, which classified the accident under INES 4.

November 24, 1989 - A near core meltdown occurs. It's the fifth and last dangerous incident at the plant. Three out of six cooling water pumps were switched off for a test. A fourth pump broke down and control of the reactor was lost; 10 fuel elements were damaged. The accident was reportedly attributed to sticky relay contacts.

Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Germany, previously East Germany
Locale	Greifswald
Status	Decommissioned
Construction began	1967
Commission date	July 12, 1974
Decommission date	July 22, 1990
Operator(s)	Energiewerke Nord
Reactor information
Reactors decom.	5 x 440 MW
Reactors cancelled	3 x 440 MW
Reactor type(s)	VVER
Reactor supplier(s)	Atomenergoexport Škoda
Turbine information
Manufacturer(s)	Škoda Electrosila
Power generation information
Annual generation	10,678 GW·h
Net generation	134,212 GW·h