Sogin completes first phase reactor dismantling

Nuclear decommissioning authority Sogin Group has completed the first phase dismantling of the main reactor vessel at the Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant, in Caserta, Italy, as part of a €382 million decommissioning project.

The Garigliano, which was built over four years from 1959 to 1963, originally comprised Europe’s first boiling water reactor, a 95-metre-high chimney, a water tower, turbine hall and other associated structures. 

Sogin, which began the decommissioning process back in 1999, recently removed all of the contaminated metal components of the…

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