page_title: Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant
section_title: Malfunctions
hierarchical_section_title: Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant / Malfunctions
caption_attribution_description: English: Unit 1 of the Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant Deutsch: Block 1 des Kernkraftwerks Neckarwestheim mit Maschinenhaus (links) und Abluftkamin Español: Planta da energía nuclear Neckarwestheim-1 y chimenea de escape
context_page_description: Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, sometimes abbreviated GKN, operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.
context_section_description: In 1977, unit I had the second most serious incident of a nuclear power plant in the German Federal Republic to that date. Numerous errors of a new crew led to damage of the secondary cycle and, at the same time, a defect of a valve led to an  automatic reactor shutdown.
  On July 27, 2004, water contaminated with two megabecquerels leaked unnoticed from unit II into the Neckar river. As a result, for the first time in the Federal Republic, the operator company of a nuclear power plant paid a fine of 25,000 Euro and a managing director was dismissed.
caption: Unit 1
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