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Arrondissement of Nîmes
Codolet

Marcoule Nuclear Site

Marcoule Nuclear Site is a nuclear facility in the and communes, near in the department of , which is in the tourist, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône region.
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  • Type: Industry
  • Description: nuclear site in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, France
  • Also known as: “Site nucleaire de Marcoule” and “Site nucléaire de Marcoule”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Phénix and Église Saint-Julien de Chusclan.

Building
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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. is situated 1 km northeast of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 1½ km west of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 2 km south of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orsan and Laudun-l’Ardoise.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southern . is situated 3½ km southwest of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Village
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Laudun-l'Ardoise is a commune in the department in the region in Southern France. It is located on the departmental border with , which is also the regional border with . is situated 6 km southwest of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in southeastern . is located 6 km north of , and about 27 km north of . is situated 6 km northeast of Marcoule Nuclear Site.

Marcoule Nuclear Site

Latitude
44.14471° or 44° 8′ 41″ north
Longitude
4.70481° or 4° 42′ 17″ east
Inception
1956
Open location code
8FP64PV3+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 42016757
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q580142
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Marcoule Nuclear Site” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Marcoule”
  • Catalan: “centre nuclear de Marcola”
  • Catalan: “Centre nuclear de Marcola”
  • Chinese: “马库勒核电站”
  • Croatian: “Nuklearno postrojenje Marcoule”
  • Dutch: “Marcoule”
  • Finnish: “Marcoule”
  • French: “site nucléaire de Marcoule”
  • French: “Site nucléaire de Marcoule”
  • German: “Nuklearanlage Marcoule”
  • Italian: “centrale nucleare di Marcoule”
  • Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Marcoule”
  • Japanese: “マルクール原子力地区”
  • Korean: “마르쿨”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Site nuclear de Marcola”
  • Polish: “Marcoule”
  • Russian: “Маркуль”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nuklearno postrojenje Marcoule”
  • Spanish: “Complejo nuclear de Marcoule”
  • Swedish: “Marcoule”
  • Ukrainian: “Маркуль”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Marcoule Nuclear Site”. Photo: kmaschke, CC BY-SA 2.0.