Chooz Nuclear Power Plant

Coordinates: 50°5′24″N 4°47′22″E / 50.09000°N 4.78944°E / 50.09000; 4.78944
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Chooz Nuclear Power Plant
Natural Draft
Cooling sourceMeuse River
Power generation
Units operational2 × 1560 MW
Make and model
GW·h
External links
Websitewww.edf.fr/120786i/Accueil-fr/EDF-Nos-Energies/-nucleaire/les-centrales-nucleaires/Chooz/presentation.html
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The Chooz Nuclear Power Station (

Ardennes department, France, on the Meuse River in a panhandle protruding into Belgium, between the French city of Charleville-Mézières and the Belgian municipality of Dinant, near the comune of Givet
.

Three nuclear reactors have been built on the site, Chooz A, Chooz B1 and Chooz B2. Chooz A was permanently shutdown in 1991 and is still undergoing the decommissioning process since 2007.

As of 2022, the plant employed around 1200 operators.[1]

The Chooz reactors were a source of neutrinos for the Chooz neutrino oscillation experiment; a new experiment, Double Chooz, was also operating nearby.

Chooz A

Chooz A was an early pressurized water reactor (PWR) design by Westinghouse, built and operated by French (EDF) and Belgian (SENA) grid operators. It was shut down in 1991 after an operational life of 22 years. The containment building of this unit was underground.

Decommissioning was authorised in 2007. After preliminary work, decommissioning of the reactor pressure vessel began in 2016. As of 2022, vessel’s internal equipment was being dismantled under water.[2]

Chooz B1 and B2

Two units of the

MWe, power was uprated to 1500 MWe in 2003. This was the highest nameplate capacity for any reactor design worldwide until the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China began operation. The Taishan plant is an EPR
design reactor with a net power output of greater than 1,600 MWe per reactor.

Reactors

Unit Type Net power Total power Construction start Construction finish Commercial operation Shut down
Chooz - A (Ardennes)[3] PWR 310 MW 320 MW 1962-01-01 1967-04-03 1967-04-15 1991-10-30
Chooz - B 1[4] PWR 1500 MW 1560 MW 1984-01-01 1996-08-30 2000-05-15
Chooz - B 2[5] PWR 1500 MW 1560 MW 1985-12-31 1997-04-10 2000-09-29

References

  1. ^ "La centrale nucléaire de Chooz". Centrale nucléaire de Chooz | EDF France (in French). EDF. Retrieved August 3, 2022. 1 187 intervenants assurent au quotidien la production d'électricité.
  2. ^ "French regulator reviews Chooz A decommissioning". World Nuclear News. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  3. ^ "PRIS - Reactor Details". pris.iaea.org. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  4. ^ "PRIS - Reactor Details". pris.iaea.org. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  5. ^ "PRIS - Reactor Details". pris.iaea.org. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chooz nuclear power plant.
  • Chooz B, Nuclear Engineering International wall chart, February 1985
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