Purpose: production of electricity

Installations: Cattenom 1, 2, 3, 4

Type: pressurized water reactors (class P’4)

Location: near Thionville (Moselle) and the frontiers of Luxembourg and Germany

Operator: Electricité de France

Period of operation: since 1986 (went critical 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1991 respectively)

Fuel: low-enriched uranium oxide

Nuclear materials: uranium, plutonium, tritium

Nominal capacity: 5200 MW electric net (1300 MW each reactor)98.7 respectively)

Actual Production: total at the end of 2000, 383.2, TWh (98.6, 101.9, 84.0, 98.7 TWh respectively)