The canton of Auvillar is a French former administrative division in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne and region Midi-Pyrénées. It had 4,896 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 10 communes, which joined the canton of Garonne-Lomagne-Brulhois in 2015. The canton comprised the following communes:
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Bardigues is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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Saint-Antoine is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
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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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Pommevic is a former railway station in Pommevic, 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.
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