RHONE-ALPES

VII. ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (EDF)

VII.A. Base chaude opérationnelle du Tricastin (Bcot)

Purpose: production of electricity

Installations: Tricastin 1, 2, 3, and 4

Type: pressurized water reactor (class CP1)

Period of operation: since 1980 (went critical in 1980, 1980, 1980, and 1981 respectively)

Fuels: low-enriched uranium oxide and mixed uranium-plutonium oxides

Nuclear materials: uranium, plutonium, tritium

Nominal capacity: 3660 MW electric net (each reactor 915 MW}

Actual production: total at the end of 2000, 456.5 TWh (113.8, 113.0, 118.5, 111.2 TWh respectively)

All the reactors are authorized to use Mox fuel. Tricastin 1 was the first reactor to try one-fourth core Mox reloads. Tricastin 2 followed [NucF 24.vii.87].

On March 11, 1999, an EDF agent got a dose of 340 millisieverts on entering a "red" zone below the reactor 1 container to recover some tools. The DSIN confirmed the classification at level 2 on the INES scale [Con.vi.00].

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