Cruas Nuclear Power Plant
| Cruas Nuclear Power Plant | |
|---|---|
 Cruas Nuclear Power Plant | |
 | |
| Official name | Centrale Nucléaire de Cruas |
| Country | France |
| Location | Cruas and Meysse, Ardèche |
| Coordinates | 44°37′59″N 4°45′24″E / 44.63306°N 4.75667°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 1978 |
| Commission date | 29 April 1983 |
| Operator(s) | EDF |
| Nuclear power station | |
| Reactor type | PWR |
| Reactor supplier | Framatome |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 4 x 956 GW·h |
| External links | |
| Website | www.edf.com |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
| ] | |
The Cruas Nuclear Power Station is a
The site contains 4 pressurized water reactors of 900 MW each, totaling 3600 MW total. The construction began in 1978, the reactors were built between 1983 and 1984.
The power station accounts for 4 to 5% of the electric energy production in France, and 40% of the annual usage by the Rhone-Alps area. The site employs about 1,200 workers and has an area of 148 hectares. Cooling water comes from the Rhône river.
Incidents
On 1 December 2009 reactor 4 was shut down after vegetation blocked the intake of the cooling system. The nuclear safety authority Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (ASN) classified the incident as level 2 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.[1][2][3]
On 5 December 2011, two
A 4.8M earthquake in the Ardeche region on 11 November 2019 meant that Électricité de France was required to halt production and check equipment at the plant. This period offline will mean that EDF will not meet its annual power production projection.[5]
Mural
In 1991 it was decided by the owners of the plant to carry out a
References
- ^ "Emergency at French nuclear power plant". Radio France Internationale. 2009-12-02. Archived from the original on 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ^ "Centrale nucléaire de Cruas arrêt à titre préventid de l'unité de procduction n°4" (PDF) (in French). Electricité de France. 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2009-12-04.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Evangelia Petit (2009-12-02). "Levée du plan d'urgence interne à la centrale nucléaire de Cruas (Ardèche)" (in French). Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire. Archived from the original on 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ^ Tara Patel (16 December 2011). "Breaches at N-plants heighten France's debate over reactors". Seattle Times.
- ^ France's EDF cuts nuclear output forecast after quake, SpaceWar.com, 2019-11-14
