located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entity zwentendorf nuclear power plant
The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was the first nuclear plant built in ___MASK16___ , ___MASK86___ 6 nuclear plants originally envisaged . The plant at Zwentendorf , ___MASK16___ was finished , but never operated . Start - up ___MASK86___ the Zwentendorf plant , as well as construction ___MASK86___ the other 5 plants , was prevented by a referendum on 5 November 1978 . A narrow majority ___MASK86___ 50 . 47 % voted against the start - up . Construction ___MASK86___ the plant began in April 1972 , as a boiling - water reactor rated at 692 megawatts electric power output . It was built by a joint venture ___MASK86___ several Austrian electric power utilities , and was envisioned as the first ___MASK86___ several nuclear power plants to be built . The initial cost ___MASK86___ the plant was around 14 billion Austrian schilling , about 1 billion Euros today . The ventilation stack chimney ___MASK86___ the plant is 110 metres tall . The plant has been partly dismantled . Since 1978 ___MASK16___ has a law prohibiting fission reactors for electrical power generation . The Dürnrohr Power Station was built nearby as a replacement thermal power station . Following the 1978 referendum , no nuclear power plant that was built for the purpose ___MASK86___ producing electricity ever went into operation in ___MASK16___ . However , three small nuclear reactors for scientific purposes have been built and used since the 1960s , with one still being in operation . ___MASK84___ (; ) is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria . The capital of ___MASK84___ since 1986 is Sankt Pölten , the most recently designated capital town in Austria . The capital of ___MASK84___ had formerly been Vienna , even though Vienna has not officially been part of ___MASK84___ since 1921 . With a land area of and a population of 1 . 612 million people , it is the largest state in Austria , and in terms of population second only to the federal state of Vienna . Zwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in the Austrian state ___MASK86___ ___MASK84___ . It is located at , in the Tullnerfeld on the southern bank ___MASK86___ the Danube . The place attained public attention as the site ___MASK86___ the only Austrian nuclear power station , which was completed but never went into operation . In a referendum on 5 November 1978 , a narrow majority ___MASK86___ 50 . 5 % voted against putting the Zwentendorf nuclear plant into operation . The Danube (, known by various names in other languages ) is ___MASK81___ ' s second - longest river , after the Volga River , and also the longest river in the European ___MASK79___ region . It is located in Central and Eastern ___MASK81___ . A municipality is usually a single urban administrative division having corporate status and powers ___MASK86___ self - government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws , to which it is subordinate . It is to be distinguished from the county , which may encompass rural territory and / or numerous small communities such as towns , villages and hamlets . The term " municipality " may also mean the governing or ruling body ___MASK86___ a given municipality . A municipality is a general - purpose administrative subdivision , as opposed to a special - purpose district . The term is derived from French " municipalité " and Latin " municipalis ".