Penly Nuclear Power Plant

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Penly Nuclear Power Plant
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Country France
Operator EDF
Built 1982
Start of commercial operation May 4, 1990
Reactors
Reactors active 2 (2764 MW)
Power
Capacity  MW
Total power generation in 2006 19,418 GWh
Average annual generation (last 5 yrs) 17,970 GWh
Net generation 272,211 GWh
Other details
Website
Site c/o Betreibers
As of July 22, 2007

The Nuclear power station Penly (French: Centrale nucléaire de Penly) lies in the French municipality Penly in Normandy in the Département Seine-Maritime on the English Channel. The nuclear power station, which consists of two pressurized water reactors, lies about 15 kilometers far away from Dieppe.

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The plant employs about 670 full time people and is operated by the French company Électricité de France (EDF). Water from the English Channel is used for cooling.

Both of the PWR units are of the 1330 MWe class. The installed total output is 2764 MW thus the plant is about average for French nuclear plants. It feeds on average about 18 billion kilowatt-hours per year into public grid; this corresponds about 80% of the current annual consumption of Normandy.

Coordinates: 49°58′36″N 1°12′43″E / 49.97667, 1.21194

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