The Montalto di Castro nuclear power station was a nuclear power plant at Montalto di Castro in Italy. Consisting of two BWR units each of 982 MWe, it was approaching completion in 1988 when the Italian government decided to close all nuclear plants as a result of the 1987 referendum. In February 1988 the two units were eighty percent complete, representing about a five billion dollars investment. It never operated.
Its area and some of the already built structures are now used by the fossil-fuel power station "Alessandro Volta", the biggest power station in Italy.
In 2024, Enel and solar power developer Comal announced the construction of the Tracker Sun Hunter factory, a solar tracker manufacturing facility that will be built inside the Montalto di Castro nuclear power station.
Reactor data The nuclear power plant has two units:
Unit Reactor type Net capacity Gross capacity Start of construction Mothballed Montalto di Castro-1 BWR/6(Mark III)Reliability Data Collection and Use in Risk and Availability Assessment Proceedings of the 5th EuReDatA Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, April 9–11, 1986, page 663, "An extensive probabilistic safety study was performed for the Alto Lazio Nuclear Plant, a two-unit BWR/6 plant presently being constructed ..."The Non-Nuclear Conversion of the Montalto BWR/6-Mark III Plant: A Technical and Economical Assessment of the Proposed Options 982 MW 1009 MW 1 July 1982 1 January 1988 Montalto di Castro-2 BWR/6(Mark III) 982 MW 1009 MW 1 July 1982 1 July 1988
References
External links
Nuclear power in Italy at the WNA site.