Engineering:Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

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Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
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CountrySpain
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E / 40.95139°N 0.866667°E / 40.95139; 0.866667
Construction began1967
Project commissioningAugust 2, 1972
Owner(s)Endesa (72%)
Operator(s)ANAV
Power generation
Annual net output7,023 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 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

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