Canton of Solothurn
Olten District
Däniken

Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant

The Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Däniken municipality on a loop of the Aar river. It is operated by the ad hoc society Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG.
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  • Type: Power station
  • Description: nuclear power plant in the Däniken municipality, Solothurn, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Atomkraftwerk Gösgen”, “Kernkraftwerk Goesgen”, “KKG”, and “KKW Gösgen”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ruine Göskon and Däniken railway station.

Castle
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is a castle, which is situated 590 metres west of Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Däniken, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the Olten–Aarau line. is situated 1¼ km southeast of Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant.

Power station
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is situated 1 km northeast of Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Obergösgen and Däniken.

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in .

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in .

Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant

Latitude
47.36489° or 47° 21′ 54″ north
Longitude
7.96804° or 7° 58′ 5″ east
Elevation
384 metres (1,260 feet)
Inception
1979
Operator
Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG
Open location code
8FV99X79+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 567427402
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Geo­Names ID
7282669
Wiki­data ID
Q687422
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “格斯根核電廠”
  • Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Gösgen”
  • Dutch: “Kerncentrale Gosgen”
  • Dutch: “Kerncentrale Gösgen”
  • Esperanto: “Atomcentralo Gösgen”
  • Esperanto: “Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG”
  • Esperanto: “Nuklea centralo de Gösgen”
  • Esperanto: “Nuklea centralo Gösgen”
  • Estonian: “Gösgeni tuumaelektrijaam”
  • Estonian: “Gösgeni tuumajaam”
  • Finnish: “Gösgenin ydinvoimalaitos”
  • French: “Centrale nucleaire de Gosgen”
  • French: “centrale nucléaire de Gösgen”
  • French: “Centrale nucléaire de Gösgen”
  • German: “Kernkraftwerk Gösgen”
  • Italian: “centrale nucleare di Gösgen”
  • Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Gösgen”
  • Japanese: “ゲスゲン”
  • Japanese: “ゲスゲン原子力発電所”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Goesgen kjernekraftverk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gösgen kjernekraftverk”
  • Norwegian: “Gösgen kjernekraftverk”
  • Persian: “نیروگاه اتمی گس گن”
  • Persian: “نیروگاه هسته ای گسگن”
  • Persian: “نیروگاه هسته‌ای گسگن”
  • Polish: “Elektrownia jądrowa Gösgen”
  • Russian: “АЭС Гёсген”
  • Spanish: “Central nuclear de Gösgen”
  • Swedish: “Gösgens kärnkraftverk”
  • Turkish: “Gösgen Nükleer Santrali”
  • Ukrainian: “АЕС Гесген”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant”. Photo: IAEA Imagebank, CC BY-SA 2.0.