The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a

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in Vandellòs located close to the

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pass (

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comarca) in

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, Spain. Unit one was a 508 MWe

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modeled on the UNGG reactor at the Saint Laurent Nuclear Power Plant in France. It was shut down on 31 July 1990, following an

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that damaged one of its two

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s 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

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

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and 28%

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