Marcoule Nuclear Power Plant

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Marcoule Nuclear Power Plant
The Marcoule nuclear facility
The Marcoule nuclear facility
location
Marcoule Nuclear Power Plant (France)
Marcoule Nuclear Power Plant
Coordinates 44 ° 9 '0 "  N , 4 ° 43' 0"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 9 '0 "  N , 4 ° 43' 0"  E
Country: France
Data
Owner: EDF / CEA
Operator: EDF / CEA
Project start: 1952
Commercial operation: Jan. 7, 1956
Shutdown: June 20, 1984

Decommissioned reactors:

3
Energy fed in since commissioning: 11,346 GWh
Was standing: Nov 26, 2006
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .
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The decommissioned Marcoule nuclear power plant is located near the municipalities of Chusclan and Codolet about 30 kilometers north of Avignon in the French region of Occitania in the Gard department on the Rhône . The power plant, which consisted of three UNGG reactors , is located on the area of ​​the Marcoule nuclear plant , which also houses the Phénix nuclear power plant and the Melox processing plant . The facility played a central role in President Charles de Gaulle's start-up program for a French nuclear force.

Key data

The nuclear power plant was operated by the French companies Électricité de France (EDF) and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA).

The first UNGG reactor had a net capacity of two megawatts (MW) and was only used for military purposes. The net output of the other two UNGG reactors was 38 MW each. The gross output was 43 MW.

The first reactor block (G1) went into operation on January 7, 1956 and was shut down on October 15, 1968. He mainly produced plutonium for atomic bombs. Construction of the second and third reactor blocks (G2 and G3) began on March 1, 1955. The second went into operation on April 22, 1959, the third on April 4, 1960. The second reactor block was shut down on February 2, 1980 and the third on June 20, 1984.

Known incidents

On September 12, 2011, an incinerator for low- level radioactive waste exploded on the premises of the Marcoule nuclear facility . Many media initially incorrectly assigned this explosion to the Marcoule nuclear power plant.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Marcoule nuclear power plant had a total of three blocks :

Reactor block Reactor type net
power 		gross
power 		start of building Network
synchronization 		Commercialization
of essential operation 		switching off
processing
Marcoule G1 UNGG reactor 2 MW 1955 September 1956 - 10/15/1968
Marcoule G2 UNGG reactor 38 MW 43 MW 03/01/1955 04/22/1959 04/22/1959 02/02/1980
Marcoule G3 UNGG reactor 40 MW 43 MW 03/01/1956 04/04/1960 05/27/1981 06/20/1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c International Atomic Energy Agency: Power Reactor Information System (PRIS): Country Statistics France. 2018, accessed December 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC): Marcoule G1, operational data . Archived from the original on May 7, 2009 ; accessed on December 28, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC): Marcoule G2, operational data . Archived from the original on May 7, 2009 ; accessed on December 28, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC): Marcoule G3, operational data . Archived from the original on May 7, 2009 ; accessed on December 28, 2019 (English).

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