Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
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Country	Spain
Coordinates
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 generation	7,023

The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station 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 station at the Saint Laurent Nuclear Power Plant in France. It was shut down on July 31, 1990, following a fire in one of its two turbogenerators in 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.

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

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).