Water intake facilities for cooling nuclear power plants and nuclear power plants equipped with such water intake facilities

摘要

Water intake installation to supply water to a heat exchanger cooling circuit of one or more reactor units of a nuclear power plant, and comprising a suction basin from which a pumping station sucks water. The installation further comprises a suction tunnel communicating with the suction basin to supply it with water, connected to two water intakes submerged in a body of water. A part of the suction tunnel forms a loop having two ends that communicate with the suction basin. The disclosure also relates to a method for producing such a water intake installation, as well as a nuclear power plant comprising such an installation, optionally with several reactor units supplied with water by a same suction basin.