Gravelines nuclear power plant

location

Coordinates

51 ° 0 '49 " N , 2 ° 8' 10" E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '49 " N , 2 ° 8' 10" E

Country:

France

Data

Owner:

EDF

Operator:

EDF

Project start:

1974

Commercial operation:

March 13, 1980

Active reactors (gross):

6 (5,706 MW)

Energy fed in in 2010:

36,625.43 GWh

Energy fed in since commissioning:

1,013,646.01 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 Gravelines nuclear power plant consists of six pressurized water reactors of the same type, each with a net output of 910 MW. The operator is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). Water from the English Channel , on the coast of which the nuclear power plant is located, is used for cooling .

It is located near the French town of Gravelines in the Hauts-de-France region in the Nord department , about 20 kilometers from the cities of Dunkirk and Calais . It employs around 1,700 people and is the top performing in France.

Cities like Ghent, Brussels (157 km), Antwerp (160 km), Maastricht, Aachen and Cologne / Bonn are in the main wind direction. London is located 167 km west-northwest.

About history

Gravelines nuclear power plant

The six pressurized water reactors each have a net output of 910 megawatts (MW) and a gross output of 951 MW. It is (as of 2012) with a gross output of 5,706 MW it is the most powerful nuclear power plant in France and one of the oldest nuclear power plants still in operation in France. It is the second largest nuclear power plant in Europe. It feeds an average of 37 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid every year . Annual production corresponds to around nine to ten percent of the electricity generated in French nuclear power plants.

Construction of the first reactor block began on February 1, 1975, and the construction of five more reactor blocks began in the following 56 months. The first was put into operation on March 13, 1980; the last on August 1, 1985.

On October 18, 2016, the nuclear regulatory authority ( ASN ) announced that within three months, EDF had to perform an unscheduled check of the functionality of steam generators at the Gravelines 4 nuclear reactor and four other nuclear reactors that are currently running.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Gravelines nuclear power plant has a total of six blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Gravelines 1	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	02/01/1975	March 13, 1980	11/25/1980	2028
Gravelines 2	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	03/01/1975	08/26/1980	December 01, 1980	2028
Gravelines 3	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	December 01, 1975	12/12/1980	06/01/1981	2028
Gravelines 4	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	04/01/1976	06/14/1981	10/01/1981	2028
Gravelines 5	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	10/01/1979	08/28/1984	January 15, 1985	2028
Gravelines 6	Pressurized water reactor	910 MW	951 MW	10/01/1979	08/01/1985	25.10.1985	2028