Marcoule Nuclear Site
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.Photo: kmaschke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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 Atalante and Phénix.
Atalante
Photo: kmaschke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Atalante is situated 470 metres northeast of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
Phénix
Building
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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. Phénix is situated 1 km northeast of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
Town hall of Chusclan
Town hall
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Town hall of Chusclan is situated 2 km west of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orsan and Laudun-l’Ardoise.
Orsan
Village
Photo: RhôneA7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orsan is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Orsan is situated 3½ km southwest of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
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 6 km southwest of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
Piolenc
Village
Photo: Jeanlouiszimmermann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 6 km northeast of Marcoule Nuclear Site.
Marcoule Nuclear Site
- Category: nuclear facility
- Location: Codolet, Arrondissement of Nîmes, Gard, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
44.14471° or 44° 8′ 41″ northLongitude
4.70481° or 4° 42′ 17″ eastInception
1956Open location code
8FP64PV3+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 42016757OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata 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”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna 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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