List of nuclear facilities in Spain
The list of nuclear facilities in Spain includes all commercial power reactors ( nuclear power plants ), research reactors and other nuclear facilities that are currently in operation or under construction, that are currently shut down or already decommissioned, or whose planning / construction has finally been abandoned.
There are no nuclear power plants in the Canaries and Balearic Islands .
In 1983 a moratorium was passed, which should initiate the nuclear phase-out . Several reactor blocks were also completed after 1983, but plans for new construction were postponed and finally discarded in 1994. After the parliamentary elections in 2004 , there was a change of government in Spain : The socialist Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) replaced the conservative People's Party, Partido Popular (PP), as the ruling party. This also changed nuclear energy policy. In 2006 the new government decided to phase out the use of nuclear energy by 2024, which is to take place gradually.
After the change of government in the 2011 parliamentary elections , in which the PP obtained an absolute majority of the seats, it was decided in December 2011 to set up a central interim storage facility in Villar de Cañas .
In February 2012, the Minister of Industry announced that the government, with the approval of the supervisory authority, had decided to extend the life of the Santa María de Garoña nuclear power plant by five years from 2013 to 2018, justifying this by saying that it would not be able to do without any energy resource.
In Spain there are laws that prohibit the further expansion of nuclear energy. Former Spanish Environment Minister Isabel Tocino (PP) said in 1999 that Spain could only achieve the planned reductions in greenhouse gases by expanding nuclear energy.
Spain has become quite against the reprocessing said what was justified by the risks of the technology. Thus there are no reprocessing plants in Spain.
In 1980, the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN, Council for Nuclear Safety) was set up to clarify the issues relating to nuclear safety and radiation protection. In 2008 the CSN recommended that the operator Endesa be fined 90 million euros for an incident in the Ascó 1 reactor in 2007.
Licensing takes place under an amended law of 1964. Spain signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a state without nuclear weapons.
Nuclear power plants
The grouping of nuclear power plants includes all power reactors and prototype systems that are or have been used for commercial electricity generation.
Performance data
There are five nuclear power plants with a total of seven reactor blocks and an installed gross output of 7,416 MW in total on the grid, three reactor blocks at three locations with a total gross output of 1,116 MW have already been shut down. The José Cabrera reactor block near Zorita was commissioned on July 14, 1968 as the first commercially used reactor in Spain . The oldest reactor block still in use is the Almaraz-1 reactor , which was commissioned on September 1, 1983. The Almaraz nuclear power plant is the most powerful with two reactor blocks with an installed gross total output of 2,093 MW. With a gross output of 1,102 MW, the reactor in Cofrentes is the most powerful single reactor block.
In 2012, the Spanish nuclear power plants produced 58,701.03 GWh of electricity, which corresponds to a share of around 20.52 percent of total electricity generation.
Surname | block |
Reactor type | model | status | Net power in MW |
Gross power in MW |
start of building | First network synchronization |
Commercial operation (planned) |
Switching off processing (planned) |
Feed- in in TWh |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Almaraz | 1 | PWR | WH 3LP | In operation | 1011 | 1049 | 07/03/1973 | 05/01/1981 | 09/01/1983 | - | 255.94 |
2 | PWR | WH 3LP | In operation | 1006 | 1044 | 07/03/1973 | 10/08/1983 | 07/01/1984 | - | 252.95 | |
Ascó | 1 | PWR | WH 3LP | In operation | 995 | 1033 | 05/16/1974 | 08/13/1983 | 12/10/1984 | - | 246.39 |
2 | PWR | WH 3LP | In operation | 997 | 1035 | 07.03.1975 | October 23, 1985 | March 31, 1986 | - | 240.90 | |
Cofrentes | 1 | BWR | BWR-6 (Mark 3) | In operation | 1064 | 1102 | 09.09.1975 | 10/14/1984 | 03/11/1985 | - | 261.68 |
José Cabrera | 1 | PWR | WH 1LP | Shut down | 141 | 150 | 06/24/1964 | 07/14/1968 | 08/13/1969 | 04/30/2006 | 34.63 |
Santa María de Garoña | 1 | BWR | BWR-3 | Shut down | 446 | 466 | 09/01/1966 | 03/02/1971 | 05/11/1971 | 07/06/2013 | 126.98 |
Trillo | 1 | PWR | PWR 3 loops | In operation | 1003 | 1066 | 08/17/1979 | May 23, 1988 | 08/06/1988 | - | 231.53 |
Vandellòs | 1 | GCR | - | Shut down | 480 | 500 | 06/21/1968 | 05/06/1972 | 08/02/1972 | 07/31/1990 | 53.63 |
2 | PWR | WH 3LP | In operation | 1045 | 1087 | December 29, 1980 | 12/12/1987 | 03/08/1988 | - | 223.74 |
- ↑ The reactor was temporarily shut down on July 6, 2013 ( long-term shutdown ); on August 2, 2017, it was finally switched off ( permanent shutdown ) without being put into operation again in between.
photos
The cooling tower of the Ascó nuclear power plant
Nuclear power plants without starting operations
The grouping of nuclear power plants without commencement of operations includes all power reactors whose planning or construction has finally been discontinued.
In Spain, construction has already started on four reactor blocks at two locations with a total gross output of 3,810 MW, but has not been completed. Another four reactor blocks, each with their own location, with a planned gross output of 4,005 MW in total, were discarded at the planning stage.
Performance data
This list can be sorted by clicking on in the respective table header.
Location | Net power | Gross output | Reactor type | construction commencing |
Planning / construction discontinued |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lemóniz 1 | 883 MW | 930 MW | Pressurized water reactor | 03/14/1974 | 04/01/1984 |
Lemóniz 2 | 883 MW | 930 MW | Pressurized water reactor | 03/14/1974 | 04/01/1984 |
Regodola | 900 MW | 930 MW | Pressurized water reactor | - | January 17, 1995 |
Sayago | 1,030 MW | 1,075 MW | Pressurized water reactor | - | 09/06/1996 |
Trillo 2 | 950 MW | 1,000 MW | Pressurized water reactor | - | 04/01/1984 |
Valdecaballeros 1 | 939 MW | 975 MW | Boiling water reactor | 08/17/1979 | 04/01/1984 |
Valdecaballeros 2 | 939 MW | 975 MW | Boiling water reactor | 08/17/1979 | 04/01/1984 |
Vandellòs 3 | 900 MW | 1,000 MW | Pressurized water reactor | - | 09/02/1995 |
photos
The first reactor block in the Lemóniz nuclear power plant
Research reactors
The research reactor grouping includes nuclear reactors that are not used to generate electricity, but are primarily used for research purposes (nuclear and material research, isotope production for medicine and technology ). There are four research reactors in total in Spain. Three of them have already been permanently shut down, one is currently shut down.
This list can be sorted by clicking on in the respective table header.
Color codes: | Shut down | Switched off |
Name of the reactor | Location / operator | Thermal performance |
Reactor type | status | start of building | commissioning acceptance |
Shutdown |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ARBI REACTOR | Centro de Investigación Tecnológica | 10 kW | Argonaut | Shut down | 03/15/1960 | 06/26/1962 | 02/01/1975 |
ARGOS RESEARCH REACTOR | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | 1 kW | Argonaut | Shut down | 01/01/1960 | 06/01/1961 | 09/01/1975 |
CORAL-I | Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas | 0.05 kW | critical arrangement | Shut down | 01/01/1965 | 03/28/1968 | 06/01/1988 |
JEN-1 MOD | Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas | 3000 kW | Swimming pool reactor | Switched off | 04/01/1957 | 10/09/1958 | 02/18/1987 |
Interim storage
Spanish interim storage facilities are listed here.
Location | location | Waste type | status | Installation |
---|---|---|---|---|
Villar de Cañas | Castile-La Mancha | Highly radioactive waste | Construction decided |
Repository
Spanish repositories are listed here. There is currently a repository in Spain.
Location | location | Waste type | Capacity | status | Installation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
El Cabril | Andalusia | Low and medium level radioactive waste | 36,000 m 3 | In operation | 1991 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Spanish nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants in Spain. In: Spain Pictures. 2002, accessed October 12, 2008 .
- ↑ Duration of the oldest nuclear power plant in Spain extended. In: orf.at. February 18, 2012, accessed February 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Dr. Christoph Scherber: "The advantages of nuclear energy are obvious". In: sciencegarden - magazine for young research. June 1, 2007, accessed October 12, 2008 .
- ↑ 216 nuclear power plants in Europe. In: konservativ.de - The conservative information base on the Internet. 1999, accessed October 12, 2008 .
- ↑ Dieter Hesse and Ute Reissner: The risks involved in reprocessing and operating nuclear power plants. In: wsws.org - World Socialist Web Site. February 4, 1999, accessed October 12, 2008 .
- ↑ a b c d Nuclear Power in Spain. World Nuclear Association (WNA), December 27, 2011, accessed October 12, 2008 .
- ↑ http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/TempChartImages/Chart_000954.png
- ↑ Spain. IAEA , accessed December 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - LEMONIZ-1 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - LEMONIZ-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - REGODOLA ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - SAYAGO ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - TRILLO-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VALDECABALLEROS-1 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VALDECABALLEROS-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VANDELLOS-3 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RRDB Search. In: Research Reactor Database (RRDB). International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), accessed January 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Bright prospects: Spanish village celebrates the construction of a nuclear waste storage facility. Spiegel Online , December 30, 2011, accessed January 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Information Group on Nuclear Energy: The final storage of radioactive waste in Germany . Brandt GmbH printing company; Berlin July 2004. Page 5.
- ↑ a b DBE: Europe. (No longer available online.) German society for the construction and operation of repositories for waste materials mbH, archived from the original on April 9, 2013 ; Retrieved January 2, 2012 .