Belleville Nuclear Power Plant

Belleville Nuclear Power Plant
The Belleville Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	47 ° 30 '37 "  N , 2 ° 52' 30"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '37 "  N , 2 ° 52' 30"  E
Country:	France
Data
Owner:	EDF
Operator:	EDF
Project start:	1980
Commercial operation:	Oct 14, 1987
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2,726 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	14,520.04 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	365,111.44 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 Belleville Nuclear Power Plant in the French municipality of Belleville-sur-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire in the Cher department , about 100 kilometers southeast of the city of Orleans on the banks of the Loire consists of two pressurized water reactors .

Key data

Electricity production of the two power plant blocks since commissioning

The 170 hectare nuclear power plant area is located on a flood-proof, 4.6 meter high platform. The nuclear power plant employs around 650 people. The operator is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). The two pressurized water reactors have a net power of each of 1310  megawatts  (MW) and a gross power of 1363 MW. The total output is 2726 MW, making the nuclear power plant one of the middle ones in France. Every year it feeds an average of 19 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid and thus covers around four percent of French electricity consumption.

Construction of the first reactor block began on May 1, 1980; it went into operation on October 14, 1987. Construction of the second reactor block began on August 1, 1980; it went into operation on July 6, 1988. The shutdown of the reactors is planned for the years 2028 and 2029 .

safety

In May 2001, as in four other nuclear power plants in France, a design-related defect was found that called the functioning of the emergency cooling systems into question. The emergency cooling system of the nuclear power plant is designed in two phases. Reserve tanks provide water in the event of a defect in the primary cooling circuit. However, if this water is no longer sufficient for cooling in an emergency, water that has accumulated on the floor of the reactor building is automatically fed in. Checks in May 2001, however, showed that this automatic feed of the water into the cooling circuit was not guaranteed because the pressure of the heated water can block the water slide.

This disruption of the emergency cooling system was initially rated by the French nuclear regulatory authority ASN on the International Rating Scale for Nuclear Events (INES) as level 1, but was later assigned to level 2. The operating company EDF then rebuilt the valve so that overpressure can no longer lead to a blockage.

Cooling towers of the nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Belleville nuclear power plant has a total of two blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Belleville 1	Pressurized water reactor	1,310 MW	1,363 MW	05/01/1980	10/14/1987	06/01/1988	(Planned for 2028)
Belleville 2	Pressurized water reactor	1,310 MW	1,363 MW	08/01/1980	07/06/1988	01/01/1989	(Planned for 2029)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "France: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
2. ↑ Energy Chronicle - French nuclear power plants not earthquake-proof

See also

• List of nuclear facilities in France
• List of nuclear power plants

Web links

Commons : Belleville Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator (French)
• Plague: Belleville (France)