Valdecaballeros Nuclear Power Plant is an abandoned

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...

in the

Valdecaballeros Valdecaballeros is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1264 inhabitants. The Guadalupe River has its mouth in the Guadiana The Guadia ...

municipality,

Badajoz Province The province of Badajoz () is a province of western Spain located in the autonomous community of Extremadura. It was formed in 1833. It is bordered by the provinces of Cáceres in the north, Toledo, Ciudad Real in the east, Córdoba in the s ...

Extremadura Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

. It was under construction in 1983 when the Spanish nuclear power expansion program was cancelled following a change of government. Its two

BWR A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is a design different from a Soviet graphite-moderated RBMK. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuc ...

s, each of 975 MWe, were mothballed, one 60% complete and the other 70% complete. In 1994, the decision was taken that the plant would not be completed. The abandoned

is 4 km north of the town, close to the Guadalupe River which has its mouth in the

Guadiana The Guadiana River (, also , , ), or Odiana, is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalusia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal). The river's basin extends from the e ...

at the Garcia de Sola Dam only 2 km downriver from the plant.

References

External links

WISE News Communique archive
July 21, 1995: ''Spanish banks to assume nuclear debt''.
Nuclear News Country Review: SPAIN (1994)
at the INSC website. Buildings and structures in the Province of Badajoz Unfinished nuclear reactors

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