Design and Construction of Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station.

At Gundremmingen, next to the existing power station, a twin reactor unit nuclear power plant is under construction. The two boiling water reactors, each with a capacity of 1300 MW, have been installed in the reactor buildings which have been newly developed. It is particularly noteworthy that the safety containment is of prestressed reinforced concrete construction which has an internal sheet-steel lining for gas tightness. After a four-year construction period to date, during which many technical problems have had to be overcome in order to satisfy requirements imposed upon nuclear power stations, the structures, which occupy a very large building volume, are extensively completed in skeleton. The plant will be put into operation in 1980 and ensure electricity supplies in Southern Germany.