Penly Nuclear Power Plant

Penly Nuclear Power Plant
Penly Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	49 ° 58 '36 "  N , 1 ° 12' 43"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '36 "  N , 1 ° 12' 43"  E
Country:	France
Data
Owner:	EDF
Operator:	EDF
Project start:	1982
Commercial operation:	May 4th 1990
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2764 MW)
Energy fed in in 2006:	19,418 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	272,211 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 Penly nuclear power station is located about 15 kilometers from Dieppe at Penly in the French commune of Petit-Caux in the region Normandy in Seine-Maritime at the English Channel , is drawn out of the water for cooling. The nuclear power plant is operated by the French public company Électricité de France (EDF), which employs around 670 people there.

The two pressurized water reactors have a net power of each of 1330  megawatts (MW) and a gross power of 1382 MW.

The total installed capacity is 2764 MW; this makes the nuclear power plant one of the middle ones in France. Every year it feeds an average of 18 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid ; this corresponds to around 80 percent of Normandy's annual electricity consumption .

history

Construction on the first reactor block began on September 1, 1982 and went into operation on May 4, 1990. Construction of the second reactor block began on August 1, 1984, and commissioning was on February 4, 1992.

According to a report by the nuclear safety authority ASN from October 2002, the functionality of a safety-relevant valve , which is supposed to ensure the cooling of the reactor blocks, could not be ensured in the event of a strong earthquake .

In January 2009 the French government confirmed that a third EPR reactor with around 1650 MW should go into construction in 2012 at the Penly site . Shortly after his election as French president, François Hollande announced that he did not want to block the construction of an EPR in Penly. According to the French Minister of Industry, Arnaud Montebourg, according to an interview in February 2013, the EPR in Penly is superfluous because there is enough capacity due to the strong expansion of renewable energies. Environment Minister Delphine Batho had already made a similar statement in July 2012 .

Incidents

On April 5, 2012, a fire broke out in Unit 2 of the nuclear power plant, whereupon the unit was shut down. The reason for the two sources of fire extinguished by the fire brigade was leaking oil from a pump in the cooling circuit. There were no injuries and, according to the operating company EDF, no environmental impact.

It later became known that the accident had also resulted in a significant leak in the primary cooling circuit. About 2.3 m³ of radioactively contaminated water per hour leaked. To ensure the cooling of the reactor core, additional cooling water was pumped into the cooling circuit. Towards evening the water loss could be reduced to 100 liters per hour. According to the operator, the contaminated water was collected in the reactor building. In the early morning of April 6, 2012, the leak was closed and the leakage of contaminated water stopped. The incident was rated 1 (anomaly) on the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale .

The fence of the nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Penly 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
Penly-1	Pressurized water reactor	1330 MW	1382 MW	09/01/1982	05/04/1990	December 01, 1990
Penly-2	Pressurized water reactor	1330 MW	1382 MW	08/01/1984	02/04/1992	11/01/1992

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
3. ↑ EDF: Réalisation d'un deuxième EPR en France , press release of January 30, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2013.
4. ^ Hollande wins French presidential election
5. ↑ BFMTV: Pas d'EPR à la centrale de Penly , dated February 2, 2013, accessed on October 13, 2013.
6. ↑ Liberation: Delphine Batho: “L'écologie est un levier pour sortir de la crise” , July 6, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2013.
7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ it / dpa / AFP / Reuters: Fire alarm in the French nuclear power plant: In Penly 2 radioactive water leaks. In: Focus Online . April 5, 2012, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/penly-le-reacteur-2-en-cours-de-refroidissement-malgre-une-fuite-d-eau-05-04-2012-1448916_23.php
10. ↑ AFP / smb: Penly: leak in French nuclear power plant closed. In: welt.de . April 6, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
11. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ^ Autorité de sûreté nucléaire: Incident de Penly. Retrieved January 9, 2019 (French). 

See also

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

Web links

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

• The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator (French)
• Commission particulière du débat public - Penly 3 (French)
• Plague: Penly (France)