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Decommissioning Chart1
Nuclear Reactors Awaiting or Undergoing Decommissioning, 1985

Reactor Location
Year Plant
Entered Service
Years Operated
Capacity
(Megawatts)
Shippingport Pennsylvania
1957
25
72
G-2, Marcoule France
1958
22
45
G-2, Marcoule France
1959
24
45
Dresden Illinois
1960
18
210
Indian Point-1 New York
1962
12
257
Windscale England
1962
19
33
Chinon-A-1 France
1963
10
70
Humboldt Bay California
1963
13
65
Garigliano Italy
1964
14
160
Karlsruhe West Germany
1965
19
58
Gundremmingen West Germany
1966
11
250
Peach Bottom Pennsylvania
1967
7
40
Douglas Point Canada
1968
16
206
Lingen West Germany
1968
9
256
Gentilly-1 Canada
1970
9
250
NPP-A1 Czechoslovakia
1972
1
110
Niederaichbach West Germany
1972
1
100

Please note that the reactors cited above vary in design.
1 Pollock, Decommissioning: Nuclear Power's Missing Link, op. cit., p. 32.
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