General Information
| Status: | in use |
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Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Nuclear power plant |
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Location
| Location: |
Civaux, Vienne (86), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France |
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| Coordinates: | 46° 27' 24.12" N 0° 39' 10.08" E |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
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 1350 MWe per unit, power was uprated to 1360 MWe in 2010. The Civaux plant uses ambient air and water from the Vienne River for cooling.
As of 2014, 582 people work at the plant, with 2.9% women.
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.
Reactors
Unit Type Net power Total power Construction start Construction finish Commercial operation Shut down 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
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Civaux Nuclear Power Plant" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1994): Aéroréfrigérants de sûreté à tirage mécanique. La source froide des circuits de refroidissement de secours des réacteurs des tranches nucléaires de Civaux (Vienne). In: Travaux, n. 700 (July - August 1994), pp. 46-52.
- (1999): Centrale nucléaire de Civaux 2: une enceinte à hautes performances. In: Bulletin annuel de l'AFGC, n. 1 ( 1999), pp. 84-87.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20025864 - Published on:
12/01/2007 - Last updated on:
18/10/2015
