Civaux Nuclear Power Plant

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Country France Status Operational Operator(s) EDF Phone +33 5 49 83 50 00 Construction began 1988		Location Civaux (Vienne) Commission date 2002 Address 86320 Civaux, France Make and model Alstom

Official name Centrale Nucléaire de Civaux Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesday9AM–12:30PM, 1:30–6PMWednesday9AM–12:30PM, 1:30–6PMThursday9AM–12:30PM, 1:30–6PMFriday9AM–12:30PM, 1:30–6PMSaturday9AM–12:30PM, 1:30–6PMSundayClosed Similar Town Hall, DéfiPlanet', Camping Municipal de Mauvil, Camping Municipal La Fontai, Abyssea

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. Water from the Vienne River is used for cooling.

As of 2014, 582 people work at the plant, with 2.9% women.

The cooling towers of Civaux Nuclear Power Plant are 200 metres in height, making them the tallest cooling towers in France.

EventsEdit

On May 12, 1998 there was a leak on an elbow in a pipe of the RCS. Water leaked out at the rate of 30 cubic meters per hour. It was classified as a 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.

References

Civaux Nuclear Power Plant Wikipedia

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