Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant Explained

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
Country:	Spain
Coordinates:	40.9514°N 0.8667°W
Owner:	Endesa (72%)
Operator:	ANAV
Construction Began:	1967
Commissioned:	August 2, 1972
Ps Units Operational:	1 x 1087 MW
Ps Units Decommissioned:	1 x 500 MW
Ps Annual Generation:	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 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

External links

• Nuclear Power Plants - Spain at the Nuclear Tourist website.
• NEA Profile - Spain.
• https://www.iaea.org/ns/tutorials/regcontrol/appendix/app96.htm INES International Nuclear Event Scale.
• Vandellos 1 NPP dismantling at the level 1 (PDF, 503KB).
• Book: Radioactive Waste Management Strategy Selection for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities: Seminar Proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003 . 978-92-64-01672-9 . Development, Oecd Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and . 2004. OECD .
• Book: Strategy selection for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities: Seminar proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003 . 978-92-64-01671-2 . Duncan, Allan . 2004. Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .

Notes and References

1. News: Redacció . 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 . Catalan . . Vandellòs . 20 October 2017.