Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

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.

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Coordinates	40°57′5″N 0°52′0″E
Status	Operational
Construction began	1967
Commission date	August 2, 1972
Owner	Endesa (72%)
Operator	ANAV
Power generation
Units operational	1 x 1087 MW
Units decommissioned	1 x 500 MW
Nameplate capacity	1,045 MW
Annual net output	7,023 GWh
External links
Website	www.anav.es/esp/a0001.htm
Commons	Related media on Commons

Unit one was a 508 MWe carbon dioxide gas cooled reactor^[1] 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.^[2][3][4] Its radioactive machinery was dismantled by 2003. It is expected that the passive equipment's radioactivity has decayed enough by the 2030'ies for these larger structures to be removed.^[5][3]

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

See also

• Energy portal
• Nuclear technology portal

• Nuclear power in Spain