Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant

Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant
Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant
	The Dampierre NPP
Country	France
Coordinates	47°43′59″N 2°31′0″E / 47.73306°N 2.51667°E
Status	Operational
Construction began	1974
Commission date	23 March 1980;; 44 years ago
Owner(s)	EDF
Operator(s)	EDF
Site elevation	120 m (390 ft);
Power generation
Units operational	4 x 937 MW
Nameplate capacity	3748 MW
Capacity factor	75.0%
Annual net output	24,629 GW·h
External links
Website	Official website
Commons	Related media on Commons
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The Dampierre nuclear power plant is located in the town of Dampierre-en-Burly (Loiret), 55 km upstream of Orleans and 110 km downstream of Nevers, it uses water from the Loire for cooling.^[1]

Approximately 1,100 people work at the site.

Seismic risk

According to a report by the Nuclear Safety Authority in October 2002, certain functions providing backup cooling for the reactor could not be ensured in the event of an earthquake.

Incidents

On 2 April 2001, during a refueling outage of unit 4, an operator made a mistake in following the correct loading pattern for the different fuel rod assemblies (of which 30% were MOX fuel). The reloading operation was stopped and the core completely unloaded. The incident was initially classified at Level 1 of the INES scale, but reclassified as Level 2 by France's nuclear safety authority in 2007.

On the night of 9 to 10 April 2007, reactor No. 3 went on emergency standby and remained so throughout the night; it was supplied with emergency power by an emergency generator. EDF triggered an emergency plan to 22h10. Throughout the night, teams acted in emergency mode, the reactor No. 3 having been deprived of its external power. The emergency generator worked well. The ASN has established a national crisis with the support of the IRSN. EDF and DSC lifted the crisis the following morning at 8:15. Following this incident, the No. 3 reactor remained shut down for several weeks to correct the problem.^[2]^[3]

References

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[1] ttps://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/42/026/42026780.pdf?r=1 ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[2] "Electric failure on the reactor n.3 of the nuclear power plant of Dampierre". May 2007.

[3] ttps://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/40/032/40032745.pdf?r=1 ^{[bare URL PDF]}

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