| Civaux Nuclear Power Plant | |
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 Civaux Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| Official name | Centrale Nucléaire de Civaux |
| Country | France |
| Location | Civaux ( Vienne) |
| Coordinates | 46°27′24″N 0°39′10″E / 46.45667°N 0.65278°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 1988 |
| Commission date | 2002 |
| Operator(s) | EDF |
| Nuclear power station | |
| Reactor type |
PWR N4 |
| Reactor supplier | Framatome |
| Cooling towers | 2 |
| Cooling source | Vienne River |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 2 x 1561 MW |
| Make and model | Alstom |
| Nameplate capacity | 3,122 MW |
| Capacity factor | 78.5% |
| Annual net output | 21,458 GW·h |
| External links | |
| Website | Site c/o EDF |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The Civaux Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Civaux ( Vienne) at the edge of Vienne River between Confolens (60 km upstream) and Chauvigny (14 km downstream), and 44 km south-east of Poitiers.
It has two operating units that were the precursors to the European Pressurized Reactor, being the "N4 stage". Designed for a net power output of 1450 MWe per unit, power was uprated to 1500 MWe in 2010. The Civaux plant uses ambient air and water from the Vienne River for cooling. [1]
As of 2022, 1300 people work at the plant. [2]
The cooling towers of Civaux Nuclear Power Plant are 178 metres in height, which are the highest among those of EDF's nuclear power plants. [3]
Events
- On 12 May 1998 there was a leak on an elbow in a pipe of the reactor coolant system. Water leaked out at the rate of 30 cubic meters per hour. It was classified as an INES level-2 event.
- Civaux was a proposed target in the 1998 World Cup terror plot; it was planned that Armed Islamic Group terrorists would crash a hijacked aeroplane into the plant on 15 June 1998. The plot was foiled with a mass arrest of conspirators on 26 May.
Reactors
| Unit | Type | Net power | Total power | Construction start | Construction finish | Commercial operation | Shut down |
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| CIVAUX-1 | PWR | 1495 MW | 1561 MW | 1988/10/15 | 1997/12/24 | 2002/01/29 | |
| CIVAUX-2 | PWR | 1495 MW | 1561 MW | 1991/04/01 | 1999/12/24 | 2002/04/23 |
See also
References
- ^ ASN. "La centrale de Civaux". Archived from the original on 30 December 2009. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ EDF. "La centrale nucléaire de Civaux". Archived from the original on 13 April 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ Document Agence française de sécurité sanitaire de l'environnement et du travail[ permanent dead link], 10 octobre 2007
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