The Isar 2 nuclear power plant is starting its final overhaul.
The fuel elements are renewed one last time before the final shutdown.
That's the schedule.
Essenbach - The clouds of steam over the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Lower Bavaria are disappearing - at first temporarily, then forever.
The power plant in Essenbach in the Landshut district will be shut down for a final overhaul on Saturday, September 25th.
By mid-October, 43 of the 193 fuel elements are to be replaced, tests carried out and maintenance measures carried out, as the operator Preussen Elektra announced.
In October, Isar 2 will be connected to the power grid for the last time before it will be switched off for good at the end of 2022.
Isar 2 nuclear power plant is starting its last overhaul - operator is "a bit wistful"
Site manager Carsten Müller stated in a press release: “It is not easy for me and my team to take this last revision as one of the last steps before the end of nuclear power generation in Germany.
It can get a little sad. "
According to the operator, Isar 2 has generated around 14.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity since the fuel element was replaced in July 2020.
The power plant contributes a good twelve percent to electricity generation in Bavaria every year.
The Isar 1 nuclear power plant in Essenbach has been in the process of being dismantled since spring 2017.
According to Preussen Elektra, around 500 people are employed at the site.
Essenbach: Isar 2 is the last nuclear power plant in Germany to go offline
After the shutdown of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plants in 2015, Gundremmingen B two years later and Philippsburg 2 at the end of 2019, only six nuclear power plants are still on the grid in Germany.
In Bavaria there is a second nuclear power plant in addition to Isar 2: Gundremmingen C in the Swabian district of Günzburg.
It should be switched off as early as the end of 2021.
At the end of 2022 - until then, the Atomic Energy Act stipulates the shutdown of the youngest reactors in Germany - all the lights will finally go out at the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Essenbach.
(dpa / jo)