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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Centrale Nucléaire de Chooz</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">France</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chooz,_Ardennes" title="Chooz, Ardennes">Chooz, Ardennes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant&params=50_5_24_N_4_47_22_E_region:FR_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">50°5′24″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°47′22″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">50.09000°N 4.78944°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">50.09000; 4.78944</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Operational</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction began</th><td class="infobox-data">1960</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Project_commissioning" title="Project commissioning">Commission date</a></th><td class="infobox-data">15 April 1967<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">15 April 1967</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Decommission date</th><td class="infobox-data">1991 (Chooz A)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_France" title="Électricité de France">EDF</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFFFE6;">Nuclear power station </th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reactor type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor" title="Pressurized water reactor">PWR</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reactor supplier</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Framatome" title="Framatome">Framatome</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cooling towers</th><td class="infobox-data">2 × <a href="/wiki/Natural_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Draft">Natural Draft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cooling source</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meuse" title="Meuse">Meuse River</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFFFE6;">Power generation</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th>Units operational</th><td>2 × 1560 MW</td></tr><tr><th>Make and model</th><td><a href="/wiki/Alstom" title="Alstom">Alstom</a></td></tr><tr><th>Units decommissioned</th><td>1 × 320 MW</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Nameplate_capacity" title="Nameplate capacity">Nameplate capacity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3120 <a href="/wiki/Megawatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Megawatt">MW</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Capacity_factor" title="Capacity factor">Capacity factor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">70.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Net_generation" class="mw-redirect" title="Net generation">Annual net output</a></th><td class="infobox-data">19,306 <a href="/wiki/GW%C2%B7h" class="mw-redirect" title="GW·h">GW·h</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#FFFFE6;">External links</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.edf.fr/120786i/Accueil-fr/EDF-Nos-Energies/-nucleaire/les-centrales-nucleaires/Chooz/presentation.html">www<wbr />.edf<wbr />.fr<wbr />/120786i<wbr />/Accueil-fr<wbr />/EDF-Nos-Energies<wbr />/-nucleaire<wbr />/les-centrales-nucleaires<wbr />/Chooz<wbr />/presentation<wbr />.html</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commons</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chooz_nuclear_power_plant" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Chooz nuclear power plant">Related media on Commons</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><div class="metadata" style="text-align: right;">[<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1739377" class="extiw" title="d:Q1739377">edit on Wikidata</a>]</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Chooz Nuclear Power Station</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Centrale nucléaire de Chooz</i>) lies in the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Chooz,_Ardennes" title="Chooz, Ardennes">Chooz</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ardennes_(departement)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ardennes (departement)">Ardennes</a> department, France, on the <a href="/wiki/Meuse" title="Meuse">Meuse River</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Salient_(geography)" title="Salient (geography)">panhandle</a> protruding into Belgium, between the French city of <a href="/wiki/Charleville-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res" title="Charleville-Mézières">Charleville-Mézières</a> and the Belgian municipality of <a href="/wiki/Dinant" title="Dinant">Dinant</a>, near the comune of <a href="/wiki/Givet" title="Givet">Givet</a>. </p><p>Three <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_reactor" title="Nuclear reactor">nuclear reactors</a> have been built on the site, Chooz A, Chooz B1 and Chooz B2. Chooz A was permanently shutdown in 1991 and has been undergoing the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning" title="Nuclear decommissioning">decommissioning process</a> since 2007. </p><p>As of 2022, the plant employed around 1200 operators.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Chooz reactors were a source of <a href="/wiki/Neutrino" title="Neutrino">neutrinos</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Chooz_(experiment)" title="Chooz (experiment)">Chooz</a> neutrino oscillation experiment; a new experiment, <a href="/wiki/Double_Chooz" title="Double Chooz">Double Chooz</a>, was also operating nearby. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chooz_A">Chooz A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Chooz A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chooz A was an early <a href="/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor" title="Pressurized water reactor">pressurized water reactor</a> (PWR) design by <a href="/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company" title="Westinghouse Electric Company">Westinghouse</a>, built and operated by French (<a href="/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_France" title="Électricité de France">EDF</a>) and Belgian (SENA) grid operators. It was shut down in 1991 after an operational life of 22 years. The <a href="/wiki/Containment_building" title="Containment building">containment building</a> of this unit was underground. </p><p>Decommissioning was authorised in 2007. After preliminary work, decommissioning of the <a href="/wiki/Reactor_pressure_vessel" title="Reactor pressure vessel">reactor pressure vessel</a> began in 2016. As of 2022, vessel’s internal equipment was being dismantled under water.<sup id="cite_ref-wnn-20220531_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wnn-20220531-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chooz_B1_and_B2">Chooz B1 and B2</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Chooz B1 and B2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two units of the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#1450_MWe_class_(N4_design)" title="Nuclear power in France">N4 reactor</a> design are in operation, Chooz B1 and Chooz B2. Designed for a net power output of 1450 <a href="/wiki/MWe" class="mw-redirect" title="MWe">MWe</a>, power was uprated to 1500 MWe in 2003. This was the highest nameplate capacity for any reactor design worldwide until the <a href="/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant" title="Taishan Nuclear Power Plant">Taishan Nuclear Power Plant</a> in China began operation. The Taishan plant is an <a href="/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)" title="EPR (nuclear reactor)">EPR</a> design reactor with a net power output of greater than 1,600 MWe per reactor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reactors">Reactors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reactors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Unit </th> <th>Type </th> <th>Net power </th> <th>Total power </th> <th>Construction start </th> <th>Construction finish </th> <th>Commercial operation </th> <th>Shut down </th></tr> <tr> <td>Chooz - A (Ardennes)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor" title="Pressurized water reactor">PWR</a> </td> <td align="right">310 MW </td> <td align="right">320 MW </td> <td align="right">1962-01-01 </td> <td align="right">1967-04-03 </td> <td align="right">1967-04-15 </td> <td align="right">1991-10-30 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chooz - B 1<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor" title="Pressurized water reactor">PWR</a> </td> <td align="right">1500 MW </td> <td align="right">1560 MW </td> <td align="right">1984-01-01 </td> <td align="right">1996-08-30 </td> <td align="right">2000-05-15 </td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chooz - B 2<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor" title="Pressurized water reactor">PWR</a> </td> <td align="right">1500 MW </td> <td align="right">1560 MW </td> <td align="right">1985-12-31 </td> <td align="right">1997-04-10 </td> <td align="right">2000-09-29 </td> <td align="right"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.edf.fr/centrale-nucleaire-chooz">"La centrale nucléaire de Chooz"</a>. <i>Centrale nucléaire de Chooz | EDF France</i> (in French). 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