Fessenheim nuclear power plant, first French PWR, about to close

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 21 March 2019 at 10:30:21 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 23 March 2019 at 05:42:49 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas, non-renewable energy, power plant, infrastructure, land, river, France
Fig. 1 - S2 (21.03.2019) - 4,3,2 natural colour - Fessenheim nuclear power plant is built along the Grand Canal d'Alsace, next to the Rhine.
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It is located in the Alsace plain, north of Mulhouse in the Rhine graben between the Vosges (France) & Black Forest (Germany) rift flank ranges.
Fig. 2 - S1 (23.03.2019) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Its two 900MW Pressurized Water Reactors were commissioned in 1977.
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Fig. 3 - They have produced 11 TWh yearly until they are stopped on 22 February & June 2020.
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Fig. 4 - In its lifetime, it encountered several events up to anomaly level, 2nd out of the 9 grades of the International Nuclear Event Scale
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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