Re: World's largest nuclear power plant.

"Don Libby" <never.spam@xxxxxxx> a utilisé son clavier pour dire :

>Which has the largest (nameplate) capacity (electric)?
>
>(Note: by "plant" I mean "electric power generating complex", which may
>consist of one or more nuclear reactors.)
>
>Winner gets a free trip to "The Nuclear Tourist" on-line.
>
>-dl
>

I thinks it's Gravelines, here in france (50 km from my home).

It has 6 REP900 rectors, giving it 5400 Mwof capacitty. It is located
near Dunquerke, the only french port on the north sea, at the extreme
northern tip of mainland france.

Dunquerke is a major energy center for france : in addition to the
nuclear plant, it is home of a major refinery and of a crude oil
receiving terminal (that feeds the refinery of course).

The landfall of the Franpipe, a pipeline that brings norwegian natural
gas into france (more than one fourth of the gas we use is imported
using this pipeline), is also there.

There is also a huge ironworks near this town. A 800 MW Natural gas
fired combined cycle power plant (the first power plant of this
technology in france) is being build. It will a blend of norwegian
natural gas and waste gases from the ironworks (cokeoven gas, blast
furnace gas).

A 100 MW offshore wind farm was to be build there also, but the
project was dropped because of a sting opposition from local
fishermen.





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