NORD Purpose: production of electricity Installations: Gravelines B1, B2, B3, B4, C5, and C6 Type: pressurized water reactors (class CP1) Location: Gravelines (Nord) west of Dunkerque Operator: Electricité de France Period of operation: since 1980 (went critical in 1980, 1980, 1980, 1981, 1984, and 1985 respectively) Fuel: low-enriched uranium oxide and mixed plutonium and uranium oxides Nuclear materials: uranium, plutonium, tritium Nominal capacity: 5460 MW electric net (910 MW each reactor) Actual production: total net at the end of 2000, 634.0 TWh (109.7, 115.7, 111.8, 111.4, 93.7, 91.7 respectively) B1, B2, B3, and B4 have long used Mox fuel: B3 and B4 began in1989; B1 in 1997 and B2 in 1998. C5 and C6 are adapted at the technical level to Mox, but its use necessitated a new authorization procedure. In 2006 EDF requested authorization to introduce Mox into C5 and C6. The decree that authorized creation of the power plant (the DAC) was revised in November 2007 to allow this use [ASN 07]. --updated 19 September 2008 Copyright © 2001-2006 by Yggdrasil; Copyright © by EcoPerspectives |