Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station
Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station is a former nuclear power station located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Bécancour, Quebec, 100 km north east of Montreal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Champlain and Gentilly.
Champlain
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Champlain is a rural municipality, picturesque and offering recreational tourism, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality Les Chenaux, in Mauricie.
Gentilly
Village
Gentilly, known as Saint-Édouard-de-Gentilly until 1900, is a village now part of Bécancour, Quebec, Canada. It is one of the major population centres within Bécancour's extensive territory, with 1,673 inhabitants counted in Gentilly at the 2016 population census. Gentilly is situated 6 km east of Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station.
Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11
Village
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Wôlinak is an Abenaki First Nations reserve in the Centre-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada. An enclave within the city of Bécancour, it was one of the Seven Nations of Canada. Wôlinak Indian Reserve 11 is situated 9 km southwest of Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station.
Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station
- Type: Industry
- Description: Decommissioned nuclear power plant in Bécancour, Quebec
- Category: nuclear power plant
- Location: Bécancour, Centre-du-Québec, Central Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.39477° or 46° 23′ 41″ northLongitude
-72.35721° or 72° 21′ 26″ westElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
87R99JVV+W4OpenStreetMap ID
way 1016440373OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة جنتيلي للطاقة النووية”
- Chinese: “簡蒂伊核電站”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Gentilly”
- Dutch: “Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station”
- French: “centrale nucléaire de Gentilly”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire de Gentilly”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Gentilly”
- Hungarian: “Gentilly atomerőmű”
- Italian: “centrale nucleare di Gentilly”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Gentilly”
- Japanese: “ジャンティイ原子力発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gentilly kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Gentilly kjernekraftverk”
- Russian: “АЭС Джентилли”
- Spanish: “Central nuclear de Gentilly”
- Swedish: “Gentilly kärnkraftverk”
- Turkish: “Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station”
- Turkish: “Gentilly Nükleer Santralı”
- Ukrainian: “АЕС Джентіллі”
Localities in the Area
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