Fessenheim 1, 1989; The first 10-year outage of a French 900 MW reactor

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States)

OSTI ID:6018321

Tarby, S; Naudet, R; Montane, C ^[1]; Gras, P ^[2]

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1. Electricite de France-CLI, Villeuranne (FR)
2. Electricite de France-REAL, Fessenheim (FR)

10 years after the preservice inspection in 1979, French legislation required the Fessenheim 1 900 MW reactor unit to undergo specific inspections necessitating a long-duration shut-down. EDF, the French Electricity Board, decided to take advantage of the shut-down to make major improvements to safety, fire detection and fire-fighting systems. Fessenheim 1 was shut down on April 7th 1989 and reconnected to the grid on October 14th in the same year. The overall operation was brought to a successful conclusion. This paper reviews the objectives and preparatives for the operation, describes the key phases and summarizes the main benefits.

• OSTI ID: 6018321
• Report Number(s): CONF-9004133-; CODEN: PAPWA
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the American Power Conference; (United States), Vol. 52; Conference: 52. American power conference, Chicago, IL (United States), 23-25 Apr 1990; ISSN 0097-2126
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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