L'Arrats est une rivière du Sud-Ouest de la France, affluent direct rive gauche de la Garonne.
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The Arrats is a 162 km long river in southern France, left tributary of the Garonne. Its source is in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees, near Sariac-Magnoac. It flows north through the following départements and towns:
Hautes-Pyrénées
Gers: Castelnau-Barbarens, Aubiet, Mauvezin, Saint-Clar
Tarn-et-Garonne: Saint-Loup
It flows into the Garonne near Valence, between Castelsarrasin and Agen.
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Saint-Loup French commune located in the west of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, in region Occitanie. Historically and culturally, the commune is in Lomagne, a former district of the Ancient provinces of France called Gascogne having the title of a viscounty, nicknamed “ French Tuscany.
Exposed to an altered oceanic climate, it is drained by the Garonne, the Arrats and various other small rivers. The commune has a remarkable natural heritage: a Natura 2000 site, a protected area and four Natural zone of ecological, fauna and flora interest|natural zones of ecological, fauna and flora interest.
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The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech, on the border of Garonne between Agen and Toulouse on the river Garonne, from where it gets cooling water, it is approximately 40 km west of Montauban.
The station has two operating nuclear reactors that are both pressurized water reactors of the French P'4 design. The plant also has two 178.5-metre-tall cooling towers that get water from the Garonne River, only using water to compensate for evaporation; the cooling loop is closed and water is never released back into the river.
In 2002 the plant produced nearly half of the electricity used in the area. It employs nearly 700 full-time workers.
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Golfech is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
It neighbours the larger town of Valence d'Agen and stands on the D813 road between Bordeaux and Toulouse and beside the canal de Garonne and railway that also link the cities. The D813 is classified as a departmental road in the French system.
Formerly, this road was designated as the N113, where the N indicated that it was a national road.
The Voie Verte cycle path serves the commune from Moissac to the east and the western border of Lot-et-Garonne towards Bordeaux. It will eventually run all the way from Bordeaux to Sète. The residents of Golfech are known as Golféchois.
The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the western part of the commune.
The river Barguelonne forms most of the commune's northern and north-western borders, then flows into the Garonne, which forms all of its south-western border.
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Golfech is a former railway station in Golfech, Occitanie, France. The station is on the Bordeaux–Sète railway. The station was served by TER services operated by SNCF, between Agen and Toulouse. Train service was suspended in 2017.