Trillo Nuclear Power Plant is a
nuclear power station
A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power st ...
in
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
.
It was designed by
Siemens
Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...
for a cost of 280,000 million pesetas. It consists of one pressurized water reactor (PWR) of 1066 MWe. Construction of unit one began in 1979, after Unión Eléctrica (now
Unión Fenosa
''Unión Fenosa, S.A.'' was, until its acquisition by '' Gas Natural'' in 2009, a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution of gas and electricity.
It installed capacity of 11,120 megawatts of power and 8.9 million custo ...
) was permitted to build the plant. The first criticality was on 14 May 1988.
A planned second identical unit was cancelled soon after construction began following a change of government in 1983.
It is mainly owned by
Iberdrola
Iberdrola, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. It has around 40,000 employees and serves around 30 million customers.
Subsidiary, Subsidiaries include ScottishPower (United Kingdom), Ava ...
(49%) and
Naturgy
Naturgy Energy Group S.A''.'', formerly ''Gas Natural Fenosa'' (), is a Spanish multinational natural gas and electrical energy utilities company, which operates primarily in Spain. The company's administrative headquarters are in Barcelona, whil ...
(34.5%).
See also
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Nuclear power in Spain
Spain has five active nuclear power plants with seven reactors producing 20% of the country's electricity as of 2023.
A nuclear power moratorium was enacted by the Socialist government in 1983. For a time the country had a policy of phasing o ...
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.
Unfinished nuclear reactors
Nuclear power stations in Spain
Nuclear power stations using pressurized water reactors
Energy in Castilla–La Mancha
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