Le barrage de Donzère-Mondragon (ou barrage André-Blondel) est un barrage hydroélectrique situé sur un canal parallèle au Rhône dans le sud de la France. Construit entre 1948 et 1952, sur le canal de Donzère-Mondragon, à Bollène (Vaucluse), il est doté d'une écluse pour permettre son franchissement aux bateaux. Conçu par l’architecte Théodose Sardnal, il fut inauguré le 25 octobre 1952 par le Président de la République française Vincent Auriol, et inscrit au titre des Monuments historiques le 4 juin 1992.
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The Donzère-Mondragon Dam, located in the French commune of Bollène-Écluse is a hydroelectric dam and lock built in 1952 at the southern end of the Donzère-Mondragon canal, in the Vaucluse department in France. It was registered in the list of historic monuments in France in 1992.
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The Barry Troglodyte Village is an archaeological site near Bollène, northwestern Vaucluse, France. It is located on a forested hill that overlooks the Rhône valley. A group of caves and stone buildings comprise an ancient village that is historically interesting because it was inhabited continuously from the neolithic until the early 20th century. Most remaining buildings date from the 17th until the 19th century, including a chapel from 1706 that was partly built in a cave.
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Bollène is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
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The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant consisting of 4 pressurized water reactors of CP1 type with 915 MW electrical power output each. The power plant is located in the south of France at the Canal de Donzère-Mondragon near the Donzère-Mondragon Dam and the commune Pierrelatte.
The power plant is part of the widespread Tricastin Nuclear Site, which was named after the historic Tricastin region. Three out of the four reactors on the site had been used until 2012 to power the Eurodif Uranium enrichment plant, which had been located on the site.
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Eurodif, which means European Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Consortium, is a subsidiary of the French company Orano, which operates a uranium enrichment plant, called the Georges-Besse plant, established at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center in Pierrelatte in Drôme. The nuclear site of Pierrelatte includes many nuclear installations, of which the largest are the Eurodif fuel factory and the Tricastin nuclear power station.
Enriched uranium is the preferred fuel for light water reactors, a common nuclear power technology.