Chooz Nuclear Power Plant

Chooz Nuclear Power Plant
Location of Chooz Nuclear Power Plant in France
Official name	Centrale Nucléaire de Chooz
Country	France
Location	Chooz, Ardennes
Coordinates	50°5′24″N 4°47′22″E / 50.09000°N 4.78944°E / 50.09000; 4.78944Coordinates: 50°5′24″N 4°47′22″E / 50.09000°N 4.78944°E / 50.09000; 4.78944
Status	Operational
Construction began	1960
Commission date	April 15, 1967 (April 15, 1967)
Decommission date	1991 (Chooz A)
Operator(s)	EDF
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Reactor supplier	Framatome
Cooling source	Meuse River
Cooling towers	2
Power generation
Units operational	2 x 1560 MW
Make and model	Alstom
Units decommissioned	1 x 320 MW
Nameplate capacity	3,120 MW
Average generation	19,306 GWh

The Chooz Nuclear Power Station (French: Centrale nucléaire de Chooz) lies in the municipality of Chooz in the Ardennes department, France, on the Meuse in a panhandle protruding into Belgium, between the French city of Charleville-Mézières and the Belgian municipality of Dinant.

The first reactor Chooz A, an early PWR design by Westinghouse, built and exploited by French (EDF) and Belgian (SENA), was shut down in 1991 after an operational life of 22 years.

Two units of the N4 reactor design are currently operation, Chooz B1 and Chooz B2. Designed for a net power output of 1450 MWe, power was uprated to 1500 MWe in 2003.

A fourth nuclear reactor, of the EPR type, is under study by EDF.

The plant employs around 700 full-time workers.

The Chooz reactors were a source of neutrinos for the CHOOZ neutrino oscillation experiment; a new experiment, Double Chooz, is currently operating nearby.

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• Chooz B, Nuclear Engineering International wall chart, February 1985