Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Coordinates	40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E
Construction began	1967
Commission date	August 2, 1972
Licence expiration	2027
Owner(s)	Endesa (78%)
Operator(s)	ANAV
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1087 MW
Reactors decom.	1 x 500 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation	7,023 GW·h
Net generation	191,546 GW·h
As of July 25, 2007

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.

Unit two is a 1080 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.
• 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 9789264016729. http://books.google.com/?id=Wt2Tcv-fxI0C&pg=PA99. 
• Duncan, Allan (2004). Strategy selection for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities: Seminar proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003. ISBN 9789264016712. http://books.google.de/books?id=W7OZkUOOVD0C&pg=PA223.