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Penly Nuclear Power Plant

Petit-Caux, France

The 224th largest power station in the world

2.66 GW · Capacity

The Penly Nuclear power station (Centrale nucléaire de Penly) is found some 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Dieppe. It lies on the border of two French municipalities: Penly and Saint-Martin-en-Campagne in the département of Seine-Maritime, Normandy, on the English Channel coast. It employs France's only working funicular railway in industrial use.

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

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