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Creys Malville fast breeder power station (1978)
| Auteur | French Atomic Energy Commission |
| Datum | 1978 |
| Classificatie | 2.02.8.20/01 (FRANKRIJK - SUPERPHENIX + KWEEKPROGRAMMA Alg.) |
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INTRODUCTION by G.VENDRYES Atomic Energy Commission director for the industrial uses of nuclear energy. The Creys-Malville fast reactor- the first to achieve the size of future commercial units, 1200 MWe – is being built in a European framework. In 1973 Rheinisch- Westphälisches Elektrizitätswerk, Ente Nazionale per l'Energia Elettrica and Electricité de France took the decision to work together to build and operate two large prototype power stations of this type, the first to be built in France and the second in Germany. It would be difficult to overstate the clear-sightedness of these three electricity producers - among the largest in the world -who in this way asserted their conviction that the satisfaction of Europe's medium-term energy requirements necessarily involved the development of breeder reactors. The collaboration thus established between the electricity suppliers opened the way for the research and development and industrial agreements entered into by France and Italy in 1974 and by France and Germany in 1977. Previous ties already existed linking Germany to Belgium and the Netherlands. Five European countries are therefore now pooling their workforces, their resources and their know-how in order to develop this technology at the industrial level. In March 1977, the contract for the Creys-Malville reactor vessel was awarded by Nersa, the company set up by the electricity suppliers, to Novatome and Nira acting in conjunction. Construction of the power station is going ahead satisfactorily with only minor departures from the planned timetable. It is true that some problems have been encountered - and solved - during the initial stage of the project. For example, the design engineers have considered it necessary to revise and supplement the arrangements made for the removal of decay heat in the extreme case of a failure of all the normal circuits. However, second thoughts of this kind are the order of the day in projects far more convention al than the present one. No wonder, then, that they occur in an undertaking which is without precedent anywhere in the world.
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