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Belleville Nuclear Power Plant

Belleville-sur-Loire, France

The 231st largest power station in the world

2.62 GW · Capacity

The Belleville Nuclear Power Plant is located in Belleville-sur-Loire (Cher) near Léré, along the river Loire between Nevers (75 kilometres (47 mi) upstream) and Orléans (100 kilometres (62 mi) downstream). It employs approximately 620 people and consists of two large 1,300 MW P4 nuclear reactors. Its cooling water comes from the Loire River.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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