Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant

Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Switzerland
Location	Kaiseraugst (AG)
Coordinates	47°32′24″N 7°44′56″E / 47.54000°N 7.74889°E / 47.54000; 7.74889
Status	Project abandoned
Construction began	1974
Commission date	never
Operator(s)	Kernkraftwerk Kaiseraugst AG
Power generation
Units planned	1 x 1,000 MW
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The site for the Kaiseraugst Nuclear Power Plant is located in north-west Switzerland beside the river at Kaiseraugst, a short distance to the east of Basel.

Plans to build and operate the power plant were the subject of increasingly high-profile controversy over many years. The project failed because of bitter and ultimately effective opposition from the local population and because it became a cause célèbre for environmentalist pressure groups in Switzerland and across German speaking central Europe more generally. The matter hit the headlines most powerfully in 1975, with an eleven-week occupation of the site by a large number of people (estimated, initially, at around 15,000 people). The project was finally abandoned in 1988.^[1]