Bavaria profits by nuclear energy

Fairly early, Bavaria's electricity economy thought nuclear energy utilization to be a great opportunity and pressed for a development of this energy source in a systematic and single-minded way throughout these last years. A period of 25 years stretches between the date of commissioning the small-sized 16 MW pilot power plant at Kahl near Aschaffenburg which was the first nuclear power plant in the Federal Republic of Germany enabling proof of steady and safe use of such a plant for power generation, and the date of the take-over of the two new 1,310 MW nuclear power plant units in Gundremmingen in spring 1985, the Bayernwerk, the Bavarian large-scale electricity producer, participated in both nuclear power plant sites. Restructuring of Bavaria's electricity generation in the past was supplemented to by further nuclear power plants at other Bavarian sites. (orig.)