Nogent nuclear power plant

Nogent nuclear power plant
Nogent nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	48 ° 30 '58 "  N , 3 ° 31' 4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '58 "  N , 3 ° 31' 4"  E
Country:	France
Data
Owner:	EDF
Operator:	EDF
Project start:	1981
Commercial operation:	Oct 21, 1987
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2,726 MW)
Energy fed in in 2006:	19,331 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	304,690 GWh
Website:	Side of the operator
Was standing:	July 22, 2007
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Nogent nuclear power plant is located in the French commune of Nogent-sur-Seine in the Grand Est region in the Aube department . The nuclear power plant , which consists of two pressurized water reactors , is located about 60 kilometers southeast of Paris on the right bank of the Seine .

Key data

The approximately 100 hectare nuclear power plant area is located on a flood-proof, five-meter-high platform. The nuclear power plant employs around 700 people. The operator is the French company Électricité de France (EDF). The reactor blocks are cooled using two 165-meter-high cooling towers and the water taken from the Seine.

The two pressurized water reactors have a net power of each of 1310  megawatts (MW) and a gross power of 1363 MW. The total installed capacity is 2726 MW; this makes the nuclear power plant one of the middle ones in France. It feeds an average of 18 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid every year . This corresponds to about a third of the annual electricity consumption of the Île-de-France region .

Construction of the first reactor block began on May 26, 1981 and went into operation on October 21, 1987. Construction of the second reactor block began on January 1, 1982 and was put into operation on December 14, 1988.

Nogent is the only site in France that uses a new generation of HTC fuel rods (HTC = Haut Taux de Combustion), which contain a higher proportion of fissile uranium-235 and are used longer in the reactor core than other fuel rods.

Special occurrences

On December 5, 2011, activists from Greenpeace broke into the power plant site and unveiled a banner with which they wanted to draw attention to the supposedly weak security of the French plants. According to the operator EDF, the power plant staff was in the picture from the start.

Aerial view

Data of the reactor blocks

The Nogent 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
Nogent-1	Pressurized water reactor	1310 MW	1363 MW	05/26/1981	10/21/1987	02/24/1988
Nogent-2	Pressurized water reactor	1310 MW	1363 MW	01/01/1982	December 14, 1988	05/01/1989

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "France (French Republic): Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
2. ↑ Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate: Printed matter 16/6853: HTC fuel rods and the GALICE fuel element management in the Cattenom nuclear power plant (PDF) from August 14, 2014
3. ↑ Greenpeace

See also

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

Web links

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

• The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator
• Plague: Nogent (France)
• Der Spiegel 40/1979: Don't forget, we are in France