Purpose: production of electricity

Installations: Fessenheim 1 and 2

Type: pressurized water reactors (CPO class)

Location: Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin), on the Grand Canal d’Alsace beside the Rhine

Operator: EDF

Period of operation: since 1977

Fu el: low-enriched uranium oxide

Nuclear materials: uranium, plutonium, tritium

Nominal capacity: 1 760 MW electric net (880 MW electricity for each)

Actual production: cumulative total at the end of 2000, 240.4 TWH (119.7 and 120.7 TWh respectively)