The BR3 Pressurized Water Reactor under Westinghouse license, was started in 1962 and definitely shut down on June 30, 1987 at 24:00, due to the end of the license.
Selected in 1989 by the European Commission as one of the four pilot decommissioning projects in the framework of the European Commission five-year RTD programme on decommissioning of nuclear installations, the project started on site operation in 1991.