Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant

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The nuclear power plant Saint-Alban is about 50 kilometers south of Lyon in the French town of Saint -Alban -du -Rhône in the Rhone-Alpes region in the department of Isère on the left bank of the Rhone. The nuclear power plant consists of two pressurized water reactors.

Key data

The plant employs about 670 people and is used by the French company Electricité de France (EDF) operated. For cooling is used from the Rhône water. The entire power plant site has an area of ​​180 hectares.

The two pressurized water reactors have a net power output of 1335 megawatts ( MW) and a gross capacity of 1381 MW. The total installed capacity is 2762 MW; thus counts the nuclear power plant to the middle of France. Every year, it feeds an average of 18 billion kilowatt hours into the public power grid; representing about 13 percent of the annual electricity consumption of the Rhône -Alpes region, and four to five percent of French consumption.

Construction of the first reactor block was on 29 January 1979 he went on 30 March 1985 in operation. With the building of the second reactor block was on July 31, 1979 started commissioning was on July 3, 1986., The construction of two additional reactor units has been discarded in the planning phase.

Security

In the case of a strong earthquake could lead to failure of the emergency cooling. According to a report by the French nuclear regulator Autorité de sûreté Nucléaire (ASN ) of 3 October 2002 could in this case, the functionality of a safety valve, which is designed to ensure cooling of the reactor units, can not be ensured. This had notified on 5 August 2002, the operating company of the EDF ASN.

In July 2008, 15 people were contaminated, according to a report in the daily newspaper Le Figaro in inspection work. The operator of the plant said that the experts were " slightly " impacted by radioactive rays. Due to the earlier incidents in French nuclear power plants in July 2008, including Tricastin, the incident drew an above-average media attention on himself.

Data of the reactor units

The nuclear power plant Saint -Alban has a total of two blocks:

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