Chooz nuclear power plant

Chooz nuclear power plant
Reactor blocks B1 and B2 with cooling towers
location
Coordinates	50 ° 5 '24 "  N , 4 ° 47' 22"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '24 "  N , 4 ° 47' 22"  E
Country:	France
Data
Owner:	EDF
Operator:	Block A: Societé d'Energie Nucleaire Franco-Belge des Ardennes Blocks B1 and B2: EDF
Project start:	1960
Commercial operation:	Apr 15, 1967
Active reactors (gross):	2 (3120 MW)
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (320 MW)
Energy fed in in 2018:	21,557 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	399,990 GWh
Website:	Operator's website
Was standing:	1st January 2019
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Chooz nuclear power plant is located in France in the municipality of Chooz on the Meuse . It has three pressurized water reactors , one decommissioned by Westinghouse and two in operation of the French type N4 . The power plant operator is EDF .

The power station is 3 kilometers from the Belgian border, between the French city of Charleville-Mézières and the Belgian municipality of Dinant . In the main wind direction there are German cities Koblenz (200 km), Wiesbaden / Mainz (245 km) and Frankfurt (270 km); Aachen (northeast) is 115 km, Cologne (northeast) is 180 km and Trier (east-southeast) is 137 km away.

The first reactor on site was Chooz A , an underground pressurized water reactor from Westinghouse. The block was decommissioned in 1991 and has been dismantled since 2008.

There are two units in operation, each with 1,500  MW electrical output: Chooz B1 and Chooz B2 . The two blocks are of type N4 from the manufacturer Framatome ANP. Construction work on Chooz B1 began on January 1, 1984, grid connection was on August 30, 1996 and commercial power operation began on May 15, 2000. Construction work on Chooz B2 began on December 31, 1985, connection was on April 10, 1997 and Commercial power operation began on September 29, 2000. In terms of net output, they are the two most powerful units in the world after the Taishan nuclear power plant in China , and in terms of gross output of 1560 MW each, they are the third largest in the world after the Civaux nuclear power plant .

About 700 people are employed in Chooz. The Double Chooz experiment has been operated at the site since 2009 .

Disruptions

In 2004, three level 1 incidents were recorded on the International Nuclear Events Rating Scale (INES).

Data of the reactor blocks

The Chooz 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
Chooz-A (Ardennes)	Pressurized water reactor	310 MW	320 MW	01/01/1962	04/03/1967	04/15/1967	10/30/1991
Chooz-B1	Pressurized water reactor	1500 MW	1560 MW	01/01/1984	08/30/1996	05/15/2000
Chooz-B2	Pressurized water reactor	1500 MW	1560 MW	December 31, 1985	04/10/1997	09/29/2000

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear facilities in France
• List of the most powerful nuclear reactors

Web links

Commons : Chooz Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Chooz nuclear power plant near ASN (2005). Archived from the original on November 27, 2008 ; Retrieved December 27, 2015 (French). 
• Chooz nuclear power plant on the operator's side (2006). Archived from the original on November 27, 2008 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 (French). 

Footnotes

1. ↑ Michael Stabenow: How France dismantles a reactor. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (online). July 4, 2010, accessed January 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Operating data for Block Chooz A (Ardennes). In: IAEA - PRIS. Retrieved January 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Operating data for Block Chooz B1. In: IAEA - PRIS. Retrieved January 1, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Operating data from Block Chooz B2. In: IAEA - PRIS. Retrieved January 1, 2020 .