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Marcoule Nuclear Site

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Marcoule Nuclear Site (Site nucléaire de Marcoule) is a nuclear facility in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department of France, which is in the tourist, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône region. [1]

32 relations: Areva NC, Asahi Shimbun, ASTRID (reactor), Avignon, Électricité de France, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Breeder reactor, Côtes du Rhône AOC, Centraco, Chusclan, Codolet, Communes of France, Departments of France, France, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Gard, La Hague site, Low-level waste, MOX fuel, Nuclear decommissioning, Nuclear fuel, Nuclear reprocessing, Phénix, Plutonium, Pressurized heavy-water reactor, Radioactive waste, Rhône, Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Sodium-cooled fast reactor, Tritium, UNGG reactor, Watt.

Areva NC

Areva NC, formerly COGEMA (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) is a French company, created in 1976 from the production division of the French government's CEA (English: Atomic Energy Commission).

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Asahi Shimbun

The is one of the five national newspapers in Japan.

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ASTRID (reactor)

ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) is a 600 MW sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor (Generation IV) project, proposed by the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA).

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Avignon

Avignon (Avenio; Provençal: Avignoun, Avinhon) is a commune in south-eastern France in the department of Vaucluse on the left bank of the Rhône river.

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Électricité de France

Électricité de France S.A. (EDF; Electricity of France) is a French electric utility company, largely owned by the French state.

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Bagnols-sur-Cèze

Bagnols-sur-Cèze is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie région in southern France.

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Breeder reactor

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes.

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Côtes du Rhône AOC

Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for the Rhône wine region of France, which may be used throughout the region, also in those areas which are covered by other AOCs.

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Centraco

Centraco (French Centre nucléaire de traitement et de conditionnement, Central Nuclear processing and packaging), is a factory run by the Society for packaging waste and industrial effluents (SOCODEI).

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Chusclan

Chusclan is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Codolet

Codolet is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies.

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Gard

Gard (Gard) is a department in southern France in the Occitanie region.

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La Hague site

The La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France.

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Low-level waste

Low-level waste (LLW) is nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for intermediate-level waste (ILW), high-level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or certain byproduct materials known as 11e(2) wastes, such as uranium mill tailings.

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MOX fuel

Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material, usually consisting of plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium.

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Nuclear decommissioning

Nuclear decommissioning is the process whereby a nuclear facility is dismantled to the point that it no longer requires measures for radiation protection.

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Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel is a substance that is used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines.

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Nuclear reprocessing

Nuclear reprocessing technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from spent nuclear fuel.

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Phénix

Phénix (French for phoenix) was a small-scale (gross 264/net 233 MWe) prototype fast breeder reactor, located at the Marcoule nuclear site, near Orange, France.

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Pressurized heavy-water reactor

A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor, commonly using natural uranium as its fuel, that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material.

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Rhône

The Rhône (Le Rhône; Rhone; Walliser German: Rotten; Rodano; Rôno; Ròse) is one of the major rivers of Europe and has twice the average discharge of the Loire (which is the longest French river), rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France.

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Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques

The Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM) is an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machinery, diesel engines, boilers, lifting equipment, firearms and mining equipment.

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Sodium-cooled fast reactor

The sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is a Generation IV reactor project to design an advanced fast neutron reactor.

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Tritium

Tritium (or; symbol or, also known as hydrogen-3) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.

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UNGG reactor

The UNGG (Uranium Naturel Graphite Gaz) is an obsolete nuclear power reactor design developed by France.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcoule_Nuclear_Site

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