Ascó nuclear power plant

Ascó nuclear power plant
Cooling tower of the Ascó nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	41 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 34 ′ 10 ″  E Coordinates: 41 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 34 ′ 10 ″  E
Country:	Spain
Data
Owner:	Endesa, SA
Operator:	Asociación Nuclear Ascó-Vandellòs AIE (ENDESA / ID)
Project start:	1971
Commercial operation:	December 10, 1984
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2068 MW)
Energy fed in in 2016:	16,086 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	456,677 GWh
Was standing:	December 31, 2016
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Ascó nuclear power plant is located in eastern Spain directly on the Ebro , north of the municipality of Ascó near Tarragona . The power plant consists of two pressurized water reactors of the US Westinghouse Electric . The Ascó-1 reactor has an installed capacity of 1033  MW , block 2 1035 MW. Unit 1 became critical for the first time on June 16, 1983 , and Unit 2 on September 11, 1985. The Ascó 1 power plant unit was first synchronized with the grid on August 13, 1983, and Ascó 2 on October 23, 1985.

Accidents

The cooling tower of the nuclear power plant

• In an incident on November 28, 2007, radioactive particles totaling 84.95 million Becquerel were released into the environment. However, the operating company did not inform the supervisory authorities ("Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear", CSN) until April 4, 2008, and only incompletely. On April 15, 2008, the incident was classified as level 2 of the INES .
• On October 14, 2009 it was reported that the two emergency diesel generators for Block 2 were "not available" due to a faulty component.
• On May 1, 2011 it was announced that on April 28, 2011, 25,000 liters of radioactive water had already escaped from the cooling circuit of reactor I. According to eyewitness reports, the water is said to have been ankle-deep in the reactor building. 14 employees had to be decontaminated. The operator Endesa reported that the contamination could only be detected on the shoes and protective clothing. The skin of the employees did not come into contact with the water.

operator

The operator is 85% owned by Endesa and 15% by Iberdrola .

Data of the reactor blocks

The Ascó nuclear power plant has a total of two blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Ascó-1	Pressurized water reactor	995 MW	1033 MW	05/16/1974	08/13/1983	12/10/1984
Ascó-2	Pressurized water reactor	997 MW	1035 MW	07.03.1975	October 23, 1985	March 31, 1986

See also

Commons : Ascó nuclear power plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of power plants in Spain
• List of nuclear facilities in Spain
• List of nuclear power plants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leak in nuclear power plant - 800 people are examined. In: nzz.ch. April 15, 2008, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ CSN message  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 57 kB)  
3. ↑ Report from the taz
4. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Spain, Kingdom of: Power Reactors" (English)