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Rapsodie was an experimental nuclear reactor built in Cadarache in France.

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Named after
sodium
Country
France
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service retirement
1983-04-00
service entry
1967-00-00
nominal power output
40
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Rapsodie was an experimental nuclear reactor built in Cadarache in France.

It was France's first fast reactor, and first achieved criticality in 1967. Rapsodie was a sodium-cooled fast neutron loop-type reactor with a thermal output of 40MW and no electrical generation facilities, and closed in 1983.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rapsodie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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