Chinon nuclear power plant

location

Coordinates

47 ° 13 '50 " N , 0 ° 10' 14" E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '50 " N , 0 ° 10' 14" E

Country:

France

Data

Owner:

EDF

Operator:

EDF

Project start:

1957

Commercial operation:

Feb. 1, 1964

Active reactors (gross):

4 (3,816 MW)

Decommissioned reactors (gross):

3 (790 MW)

Energy fed in in 2010:

20,692.32 GWh

Energy fed in since commissioning:

642,760.07 GWh

Website:

Side of the operator

Was standing:

June 3, 2011

The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Chinon nuclear power plant is located near the town of Chinon in the French department of Indre-et-Loire on the Loire River . The nuclear power plant comprises a total of seven reactor blocks , the first three of which have already been decommissioned.

The nuclear power plant employs around 1,350 people. The operator is the French company Électricité de France (EDF).

history

Construction of the first reactor block, which went into operation on June 14, 1963, began on February 1, 1957. In 1965 and 1966, two more reactor units went into operation. These three reactor blocks were shut down in 1973, 1985 and 1990. In the years 1982 to 1987, four further reactor units went into operation.

The quinone A1 reactor, which was shut down in 1973, was partially dismantled by 1984; the metallic spherical reactor building "La Boule" has housed a museum since 1986.

power

The first three reactor blocks, quinone A1 to A3, are gas-cooled UNGG reactors . The four reactors that are still in operation, quinone B1 to B4 are, pressurized water reactors with a net power of each of 905 megawatts (MW) and a gross power output of 954 MW. The cooling of the reactor blocks is carried out with four cooling towers , which had to be built low so as not to obstruct the view of the castles on the Loire .

The four reactors in operation have a total installed gross capacity of 3,816 MW , making the nuclear power plant one of the larger in France. Every year it feeds an average of 24 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid and thus covers around six percent of French electricity consumption.

Chinon nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Chinon nuclear power plant has a total of seven blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Quinone A1	UNGG reactor	70 MW	80 MW	02/01/1957	06/14/1963	02/01/1964	04/16/1973
Quinone A2	UNGG reactor	180 MW	230 MW	08/01/1959	02/24/1965	02/24/1965	06/14/1985
Quinone A3	UNGG reactor	360 MW	480 MW	03/01/1961	08/04/1966	08/04/1966	06/15/1990
Quinone B1	Pressurized water reactor	905 MW	954 MW	03/01/1977	11/30/1982	02/01/1984	(Planned for 2024)Template: future / in 4 years
Quinone B2	Pressurized water reactor	905 MW	954 MW	03/01/1977	11/29/1983	08/01/1984	(Planned for 2024)Template: future / in 4 years
Quinone B3	Pressurized water reactor	905 MW	954 MW	10/01/1980	10/20/1986	03/04/1987	(Planned for 2027)Template: future / in 5 years
Quinone B4	Pressurized water reactor	905 MW	954 MW	02/01/1981	11/14/1987	04/01/1988	(Planned for 2028)Template: future / in 5 years