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Zwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in Lower Austria, with 3,280 inhabitants. It is located in the Tullnerfeld on the southern bank of the Danube. The place attained celebrity as the site of the only Austrian nuclear power station, which was established here, but its start-up was prevented by a popular vote on November 5, 1978. A breath-thin majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.

Instead, near Zwentendorf, were built:

Danube power station Altenwörth (1976)
the thermal power station Dürnrohr (1986)
the HVDC-back-to-back station Dürnrohr on the area of the transformer station Dürnrohr (1983, 1996 shutdown) with a transmission rate of 550 megawatts during DC voltage of 145 kV. This plant served Dürnrohr until 1996 for the energy exchange with Czechoslovakia (from 1993 the Czech Republic) over a 380kV three-phase AC current leading from the HGÜ-Kurzkupplung to the transformer station Slavětice.