Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E / 40.95139°N 0.86667°E / 40.95139; 0.86667StatusOperationalConstruction began1967Commission dateAugust 2, 1972Owner(s)Endesa (72%)Operator(s)ANAVPower generation Units operational1 x 1087 MWUnits decommissioned1 x 500 MWNameplate capacityAnnual net output7,023 GWhExternal linksWebsitewww.anav.es/esp/a0001.htmCommonsRelated media on Commons

The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Vandellòs located close to the Coll de Balaguer pass (Baix Camp comarca) in Catalonia, Spain.

Unit one was a 508 MWe carbon dioxide gas cooled reactor modeled on the UNGG reactor at the Saint Laurent Nuclear Power Plant in France. It was shut down on 31 July 1990, following an incident that damaged one of its two turbogenerators on 19 October 1989. Important nuclear safety functions in the plant were impaired by the fire, and the event was later classified as a level 3 event in the International Nuclear Event Scale.^[1]

Unit two is a 1087 MWe PWR. The station's owners are: 72% Endesa and 28% Iberdrola.

See also

• Nuclear power in Spain

References

External links

• Nuclear Power Plants - Spain at the Nuclear Tourist website.
• NEA Profile - Spain.
• [1] INES International Nuclear Event Scale.
• Vandellos 1 NPP dismantling at the level 1 (PDF, 503KB).
• Development, Oecd Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and (2004). Radioactive Waste Management Strategy Selection for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities: Seminar Proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003. OECD. ISBN 978-92-64-01672-9.
• Duncan, Allan (2004). Strategy selection for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities: Seminar proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003. Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ISBN 978-92-64-01671-2.