Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
Closed nuclear power plant in Germany
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Biblis is the partner power station of the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant.
Closure
In March 2013, Angela Merkel ordered the three-month closure of the Biblis Nuclear Power Plant as an immediate response to the Fukushima accident. RWE complied with the decree by shutting Biblis-A immediately. The administrative court for the German state of Hesse ruled that this order was illegal. The court ruled that RWE had not been given sufficient opportunity to respond to the order. Nevertheless, the units are now indefinitely shut down, due to the government's later decision to phase out all nuclear power (Atomausstieg).
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Incidents
On 17 December 1987, an incident (INES 1) occurred: Operators overlooked a stop valve that had not been closed. In order to close the armature a valve was opened. The radioactive primary cooling water discharged for a short time into the annular space. Because the discharge of the reactor cooling water took place outside of the reactor containment, there was potentially no feedback from the sump over the safety cooling pumps. The incident became public one year later, when an article in an American technical periodical (Nucleonic Weeks) was published.IAEA
There have been no other events higher than 0 on the INES scale.