Sellafield historic reprocessing facilities, waste stores, as well as other clean-up projects on the site. Reprocessing plants include the THORP nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, the Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, and the Waste Vitrification Plant. The site contains several nuclear waste stores, with the Low Level Waste Repository 6 km away at Drigg. The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory also has its Central Laboratory on the Sellafield site. Sellafield was a small rural community situated on the west (Irish Sea) coast of North-West England in the current county of Cumbria (and formerly in the pre-1974 county of Cumberland) in the parish of
Gravelines Nuclear Power Station Gravelines Nuclear Power Station The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station is one of the largest nuclear power stations (the seventh largest) in the world, and the largest in Western Europe. It is located near the commune of Gravelines in Nord, France, approximately from Dunkerque and Calais. Its cooling water comes from the North Sea. The plant consists of 6 nuclear reactors of 900 MW each. In 2017 the plant produced 31.67 TWh of electric energy, 5.9% of French electricity production. Two reactors entered service in 1980, two in 1981, and two in 1985. The site employs 1680 regular employees. As of