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The Klingnauer Stausee (or "Klingnau reservoir") is a reservoir near Böttstein, canton of Aargau, Switzerland, at . The lake with a surface of 1.16 km² was formed at the construction of a power plant on the Aar river in the 1930s. (...)

Switzerland has four nuclear power plants with five reactors in operation as of 2007. These plants produced 26.2 billion kWh in 2006 (up 19.2% from 2005 when 22.9 billion kWh were produced), or 42.2% of the total production of electricity (62.1 kWh) in the country. The rest was produced by hydroelectric plants (52.4%) and conventional thermal or other plants (5.4%) (...)

The Nuclear power station Beznau, abbreviated KKB, is in the municipality Döttingen (canton Aargau, Switzerland) on an artificial island in the Aare River. It consists of two identical reactors (Beznau 1 and 2), which Pressurized water reactors constructed by Westinghouse with 365 MW each of electrical capacity. One reactor cools with the water of the Aare River (...)