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
Average 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 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.
• 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.