Tihange Nuclear Power Station

Tihange nuclear power plant seen from the fortress of Huy

The Tihange Nuclear Power Station, along with Doel Nuclear Power Station, is one of the two large-scale nuclear power plants in Belgium. It is located on the right bank of the Meuse River in the Belgian district of Tihange, part of Huy municipality in the Walloon province of Liège. The primary stakeholder in the plant is the Belgian energy company Electrabel.

Reactors

The plant has three pressurized water reactors, with a total capacity of 2985 MW_e and makes up 52% of the total Belgian nuclear generating capacity.^[1] Its units are rated as follows:

• Tihange 1: 962 MW_e (1975)
• Tihange 2: 1008 MW_e (1983)
• Tihange 3: 1015 MW_e (1985)

Incidents

On September 3rd 2008 a malfunctioning fan was found in a reactor. This was classified as INES-1^[2]. Also, in 2005 and 2002 there were two INES-2 incidents. And in 2001 and 1993 there were fires on the site of the nuclear power plant. Those were classified as level 0.^[3]

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  The plant seen from Ampsin station

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  Cooling towers along the Meuse river

References

1. ^ IAEA summary of Belgian reactors
2. ^ Incident à la centrale nucléaire de Tihange (French)
3. ^ Tihange | Nuclear power in Europe

See also

• Nuclear Plant Doel

External links

• Electrabel site about Nuclear Plant Tihange
• Belgian, Dutch, German alliance against the NPP Tihange stop-tihange.org

Coordinates: 50°32′04.66″N 5°16′21.12″E / 50.5346278°N 5.2725333°E / 50.5346278; 5.2725333