Phénix
Phénix was a small-scale prototype fast breeder reactor, located at the Marcoule nuclear site, near Orange, France. It was a pool-type liquid-metal fast breeder reactor cooled with liquid sodium.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: nuclear power plant
- Also known as: “Phenix”, “Phenix nuclear power plant”, and “Réacteur Phénix”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Marcoule Nuclear Site and Chapelle de Gabet.
Marcoule Nuclear Site
Photo: kmaschke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marcoule Nuclear Site is a nuclear facility in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department of France, which is in the tourist, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône region. Marcoule Nuclear Site is situated 1 km southwest of Phénix.
Église Saint-Julien de Chusclan
Church
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Église Saint-Julien de Chusclan is a church, which is situated 2½ km west of Phénix.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orsan and Piolenc.
Orsan
Village
Photo: RhôneA7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orsan is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Orsan is situated 4 km southwest of Phénix.
Piolenc
Village
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Piolenc is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Piolenc is located 6 km north of Orange, and about 27 km north of Avignon. Piolenc is situated 5 km northeast of Phénix.
Laudun-l’Ardoise
Village
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Laudun-l'Ardoise is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is located on the departmental border with Vaucluse, which is also the regional border with Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Laudun-l’Ardoise is situated 7 km southwest of Phénix.
Phénix
- Categories: nuclear power plant and sodium-cooled fast reactor
- Location: Codolet, Arrondissement of Nîmes, Gard, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
44.15119° or 44° 9′ 4″ northLongitude
4.71399° or 4° 42′ 50″ eastElevation
41 metres (135 feet)Inception
1974Open location code
8FP65P27+FHOpenStreetMap ID
way 71318740OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesGeoNames ID
11837570Wikidata ID
Q113368
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Phénix” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Phénix”
- Chinese: “鳳凰號”
- Dutch: “Phenix”
- Dutch: “Phénix”
- French: “Phénix”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Phénix”
- Italian: “centrale elettronucleare Phénix”
- Italian: “Centrale elettronucleare Phénix”
- Japanese: “フェニックス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Phénix kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Phénix kjernekraftverk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Phénix”
- Russian: “Феникс”
- Spanish: “Phénix”
- Ukrainian: “Фенікс (реактор)”
- Ukrainian: “Фенікс”
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