List of nuclear facilities in Spain

Map of operational, shutdown or planned commercial reactors and storage sites in Spain

Development of electricity production in Spain by energy source (nuclear energy is shown in yellow)

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.

List of nuclear power plants in Spain (source: IAEA, as of December 2019)

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

1. ↑ 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.

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  Almaraz nuclear power plant

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  The cooling tower of the Ascó nuclear power plant

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  Cofrentes nuclear power plant

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  José Cabrera nuclear power plant

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  Trillo nuclear power plant

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  Vandellòs 2 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

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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

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  Lemóniz nuclear power plant

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  The first reactor block in the Lemóniz nuclear power plant

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  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

1. ^ Spanish nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants in Spain. In: Spain Pictures. 2002, accessed October 12, 2008 . 
2. ↑ Duration of the oldest nuclear power plant in Spain extended. In: orf.at. February 18, 2012, accessed February 23, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Dr. Christoph Scherber: "The advantages of nuclear energy are obvious". In: sciencegarden - magazine for young research. June 1, 2007, accessed October 12, 2008 . 
4. ↑ 216 nuclear power plants in Europe. In: konservativ.de - The conservative information base on the Internet. 1999, accessed October 12, 2008 . 
5. ↑ 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 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Nuclear Power in Spain. World Nuclear Association (WNA), December 27, 2011, accessed October 12, 2008 . 
7. ↑ http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/TempChartImages/Chart_000954.png
8. ↑ Spain. IAEA , accessed December 10, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - LEMONIZ-1 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - LEMONIZ-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - REGODOLA ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - SAYAGO ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - TRILLO-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VALDECABALLEROS-1 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VALDECABALLEROS-2 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Nuclear Power Reactor Details - VANDELLOS-3 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ RRDB Search. In: Research Reactor Database (RRDB). International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), accessed January 2, 2012 . 
18. ↑ Bright prospects: Spanish village celebrates the construction of a nuclear waste storage facility. Spiegel Online , December 30, 2011, accessed January 2, 2012 . 
19. ↑ Information Group on Nuclear Energy: The final storage of radioactive waste in Germany . Brandt GmbH printing company; Berlin July 2004. Page 5.
20. ↑ ^{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 . 

Web links

Commons : Nuclear Facilities in Spain  - Collection of images

• Information about Spanish nuclear power plants

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear power plants

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