Nuclear power in Austria

In the 1960s the Austrian government started a nuclear-energy program and parliament unanimously ordered a nuclear power-plant built.

In 1972, the German company KWU began construction of the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant boiling-water 700 MWe reactor.

[5] Austria has particularly sought to pressure the Czech Republic to dismantle the Temelin nuclear power-plant near the Austrian border.

[5] The Czech Republic has defended the nuclear power-plant as safe and better than alternatives such as dependence on coal, gas, and oil.

[5] In 2022, Austria filed a legal challenge to prevent the European Union from including nuclear energy as a category of green investment.