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    The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant (French: Centrale Nucléaire du Tricastin) is a nuclear power plant consisting of 4 pressurized water reactors (PWRs)...
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    The Grignan-Les Adhemar AOC (formerly the Côteaux du Tricastin) is the northernmost wine-growing AOC in the southern area of the Rhône wine region of...
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    The Tricastin (French pronunciation: [tʁikasˈtɛ̃]) is a natural and historic region in the southern Rhône valley of southeastern France comprising the...
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    enrichment plant, called the Georges-Besse plant, established at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center in Pierrelatte in Drôme. The nuclear site of Pierrelatte...
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  • The canton of Le Tricastin is an administrative division of the Drôme department, southeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation...
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    Marcoule/Phénix Nogent Paluel Penly Saint-Alban Saint- Laurent Superphénix Tricastin Since the mid 1980s, the largest source of electricity in France has been...
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  • The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station The Tricastin Nuclear Power Center The Chinon Nuclear Power Plant The Bugey Nuclear...
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    Diocese of Saint-Paul-en-Tricastin (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum; French: Diocèse de Saint-Paul-en-Tricastin), existed from the sixth century...
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    diffusion. The plant, now in the nuclear dismantling phase, is located on the Tricastin nuclear site at Pierrelatte in the Drôme region. On the initiative of...
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  • (Capenhurst), Germany (Gronau and Jülich), the Netherlands (Almelo), France (Tricastin) and the U.S. (Eunice, New Mexico). Urenco Netherlands BV has dismantled...
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    called the Segobriga, settled near modern-day Marseille. The Caturiges, Tricastins, and Cavares settled to the west of the Durance river. Celts and Ligurians...
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    [sɛ̃ pɔl tʁwɑ ʃɑto]; Vivaro-Alpine: Sant Pau de Tricastin), sometimes known as St-Paul-en-Tricastin, is a commune, an administrative region, in the Drôme...
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    of Diois, around the episcopal city of Die, also annexed in 1404 the Tricastin the Principality of Orange annexed to Dauphiné, (in 1793 it was included...
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    Gorges of the Ardèche and is shares the same latitudes as the Coteaux de Tricastin AOC on the left bank of the Rhône. The wine became a VDQS in 1962 and...
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    The conversion and enrichment operations are carried out in Malvési and Tricastin sites in France. Nuclear material transport and storage services are provided...
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    nuclear reactors are not thought to have been possible. In May 1972, at the Tricastin uranium enrichment site at Pierrelatte, France, routine mass spectrometry...
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    its Melox factory in the southwest, and at two sites attached to its Tricastin power plant in the south. Work has also stopped on extensions to uranium...
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    Coteaux de Pierrevert, Coteaux Varois, Côtes du Luberon, Coteaux du Tricastin, Côtes de Provence, Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages, Côtes du...
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  • in Romans-sur-Isère. It operates a further two facilities, one at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center in France and one Dessel in Belgium. In 2001 FBFC...
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  • Marcoule/Phénix Nogent Paluel Penly Saint-Alban Saint- Laurent Superphénix Tricastin AVR Biblis Brokdorf Brunsbüttel Emsland Lingen Grafenrheinfeld Greifswald...
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    faulting, but also strike-slip faulting. In the lower Rhône Valley, the Tricastin has been known from the 18th century as the seat of earthquake swarms...
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    summer of 2008, numerous incidents happened: in one, at the Areva plant in Tricastin, it was reported that, during a draining operation, liquid containing...
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  • subsidiary of Areva, is an operator of the uranium enrichment plant at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center. Framatome France Uranium mining, nuclear fuel cycle...
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  • enrichment plant was operated by COGEMA (later AREVA) from 1979 to 2012 at Tricastin, then replaced by the Georges Besse II centrifuge enrichment plant. American...
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    with L'Alcúdia, Spain, since 1994. Communes of the Vaucluse department Tricastin Nuclear Power Center Félix Charpentier. Sculptor of Bollène War Memorial...
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  • Spain national rugby union players "rugby. David Barrera-Howarth (RC Tricastin), sélectionné avec l'Espagne". Le Dauphine (in French). 19 February 2015...
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    reporting minor events to the public differ from country to country.) Tricastin (Drôme, France), July 2008; leak of 18,000 L (4,000 imp gal; 4,800 US gal)...
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  • Shut down/in decommissioning 1200 13 Dec 1976 1 Dec 1986 31 Dec 1998 Tricastin 1 PWR CP1 Operational 915 1 Nov 1974 1 Dec 1980 2 PWR CP1 Operational...
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  • February 25, 1972. In 1974, construction commenced on the Tricastin nuclear site. The Tricastin nuclear power plant was subsequently built to provide electricity...
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    electricity tunnel, damaging many safety system cables 0 12 1 13 Jul 2008 Tricastin, France Thirty cubic meters of wastewater contaminated with uranium were...
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