Chooz Nuclear Power Plant

Chooz Nuclear Power Plant
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; 4.78944
Status	Operational
Construction began	1960
Commission date	15 April 1967 (15 April 1967)
Decommission date	1991 (Chooz A)
Operator	EDF
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Reactor supplier	Framatome
Cooling towers	2 × Natural Draft
Cooling source	Meuse River
Power generation
Units operational	2 × 1560 MW
Make and model	Alstom
Units decommissioned	1 × 320 MW
Nameplate capacity	3120 MW
Capacity factor	70.6%
Annual net output	19,306 GW·h
External links
Website	www.edf.fr/120786i/Accueil-fr/EDF-Nos-Energies/-nucleaire/les-centrales-nucleaires/Chooz/presentation.html
Commons	Related media on Commons
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The Chooz Nuclear Power Station (French: Centrale nucléaire de Chooz) lies in the municipality of Chooz in the Ardennes department, France, on the Meuse River in a panhandle protruding into Belgium, between the French city of Charleville-Mézières and the Belgian municipality of Dinant, near the comune of Givet.

Three nuclear reactors 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 decommissioning process since 2007.

As of 2022, the plant employed around 1200 operators.^[1]

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