[citation needed] Dimensions of the outer concrete building of the double-containment are height of around 54,5 m and diameter of around 67 m.[3] In order to avoid overheating of the river Neckar, both blocks have cooling towers.

In 1977, Unit I had the second most serious incident of a nuclear power plant in the German Federal Republic to that date.

On 27 July 2004, slightly radioactively contaminated water with two megabecquerels activity was discharged from Unit II into the Neckar river.

[4] 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 and a managing director was dismissed.

This measure was taken because, in case of a disturbance of the parallel 380 kV-line, overvoltages can occur which insulation designed for 110 kV cannot stand.

another 110 kV-line for three phase AC with one circuit which originates in the switchgear of the coal-fired power station at Walheim also runs to the GKN.

Geologist Hermann Behmel was a prominent opponent of the Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant.

[5] In April 2009, anti-nuclear activists blocked the entrance to the controversial Neckarwestheim Nuclear Plant with an 8-metre wall.

Their protest coincided with the annual meeting of the company that runs the plant, Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW).

[6] On April 23rd 2014, the power plant featured on an episode of The Technical Difficulties in the game 'Citation Needed' presented by Tom Scott, Gary Brannan, Matt Gray, and Chris Joel.