Alexander Dupra

The WHNEP or Western Heigadian Nuclear Energy Plant (French: Centrale Nucléaire de Heigarde de l'Ouest CNHO; German: Westlichen Kernkraftwerk Hechtgartisch WKH) is a nuclear power plant that works in the city of Fyrno, in the Duchy of Wador-Anhalt.



History and Controversy
The construction of a Nuclear Power Plant was in development since the early '70s in the government of Prime Minister Konrad Stahl and his Minister of Energy, Ludovic Balden. The Energy and Mines budget wasn't enough to incluide the massive and expensive project, and the proposal was dropped by 1981.

PM Christian Russell arranged a contract in 1979 with the Electric Company of Heigard in which both agreed to halve the amount of total cost of the construction and installing of the plant in the city of Fyrno, because of its location at the edge of the Fidgel River and its closeness to the Zarcavill Ocean.

After the contract was signed, the project "disappeared" because any movement was seen from both sides.

In 1995, the project was revived, based in the contract of 1979 by an external energy company. The building request was signed with the name of Bär-Gamaliel Energetic Enterprises, but such company wasn't found in any registry through the whole Zaggeth Continent; this wasn't discovered until 2007.

Henri Castell-Kach, Prime Minister in 2002, inaugurated the plant in the mentioned year, with the purpose of reducing greatly the cost of electric energy. Heigardian people was in favor of reducing the already low prices of energy even more.

In 2007, the Minister of Interior ordered a partial revision of the building licenses, which was not realized since 1994, a year previous to the building of the WHNEP. When the building license of the nuclear plant was found, the government tried to contact the electric company to finish the agreement of 1979 but anyone found neither the company nor the owner of it. Given the evidence, the plant was built illegally.

Current Situation and Future
After the license incident, the ECH acquired the plant by an agreement with the government and it's currently controlled by it. The recently elected Prime Minister Ulrich Meukervan is still deciding along with the Ministries of Energy, Labor and Economy and Commerce which fate the WHNEP will face.

The plant houses two 1,450 MWe reactors, which altogether generate an annual amount of 25,236 GW-h. The current base amount for electric energy is of Ħ. 0.102561 per kW-h. If the plant is closed, the price of energy would rise to Ħ. 0.401324 approx. In the personal opinion of PM Ulrich Meukervan: "The plant represents a great source of energy to this part of the country, if we close it we would leave hundreds of families without electric energy and that would be a great problem. We'll do everything to end this uncomfortable situation".

If the plant is finally closed, a reestablishing of the energy in Wador-Anhalt, part of Wador-Gorraine, Fertling and Frisch would cost an approximate of Ħ. 50,000,000, three times the Energy budget of the government.