Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant
building in Sessa Aurunca, Italy
Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant located at Sessa Aurunca (Campania), in southern Italy. It was named after the river Garigliano.
Consisting of one 150MWe BWR from General Electric, it operated from 1964 until 1982. First criticality was on 5 June 1963, with grid connection 1 January 1964 and full commercial operation from 1 June in that year. Garigliano was in 1964 the fourth BWR ever worldwide commercial operated, and had the second highest MW-capacity after Dresden Nuclear Power Plant unit 1.
Final shutdown was on 1 March 1982 and the plant was handed to the Italian nuclear decommissioning authority SOGIN on 1 November 1999. Decommissioning was expected to take 27 years, with the total bill expected to reach $432.4 million.
As of early 2026 the completion of the decommissioning is expected to finish in 2031.
History
The plant was constructed between November 1, 1959, and January 1, 1963, by Società Elettronucleare Nazionale, taking only four years to build.On 1 June 1964, the plant began production of energy for commercial use. In 1965, ENEL took control of the structure officially.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant” as building in Sessa Aurunca, Italy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Sessa Aurunca, Italy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1724901. VIAF identifies the subject as 156555341. Authority coordinates are 41.258, 13.835. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1982, 1963 and 1999.
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This entry incorporates text from “Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.