The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the

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in the communes of

Saint-Alban-du-Rhône Saint-Alban-du-Rhône () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas ...

and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.

Description

The power station uses water from the Rhone river to cool its two 1,300 MW reactors and employs 670 people.

Type of reactors

The following types of reactors are installed:

Reactor units

Seismological risk

According to WENRA, EDF has prepared a plan in case of an earthquake, however other ASN documents from 2002 there may be some anomalies regarding the remote control and which may put into question the correct functioning of certain elements following an earthquake.

2003 heatwave

Following extremely high temperatures in July 2003 average water temperature rose above the limit authorised by the nuclear safety authorities for a period of 4 hours.

Fire risk

According to the 2007 ASN annual report recommendations were made to the operator to improve the security of the control room.

References

External links

Saint-Alban Power station website
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Aerial view

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