Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
Country Spain
Coordinates 40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E / 40.95139°N 0.86667°E / 40.95139; 0.86667Coordinates: 40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E / 40.95139°N 0.86667°E / 40.95139; 0.86667
Construction began 1967
Commission date August 2, 1972
Owner(s) Endesa (72%)
Operator(s) ANAV
Power generation
Units operational 1 x 1087 MW
Units decommissioned 1 x 500 MW
Annual net output 7,023 GWh

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 July 31, 1990, following an accident 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.

References

  1. ↑ Redacció, ed. (19 October 2014). "Fa 25 anys del greu accident a la central nuclear Vandellòs 1" [25 years since the serious accident at Vandellòs I Nuclear Power Plant]. Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (in Catalan). Vandellòs. Retrieved 20 October 2017.

See also

  • Nuclear Power Plants - Spain at the Nuclear Tourist website.
  • NEA Profile - Spain.
  • 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. 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. ISBN 978-92-64-01671-2.


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