Trillo Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station in Spain. The Trillo nuclear power plant is located in the municipal area of the same name in the province of Guadalajara, on the banks of the river Tajo, and has a nuclear steam supply system made up of a three-loop pressurised light water reactor (PWR) with an authorised thermal output of 3,010 MWt and an electrical power of 1,066 MWe. Ownership of the plant is shared between the companies Iberdrola (48%), Unión Fenosa (34.5%), Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico (15.5%) and Nuclenor (2%). The Trillo I nuclear power plant belongs to the third generation of Spanish plants and began its commercial operation on August 22nd 1988.

It consists of one pressurized water reactor (PWR) of 1066 MWe. Construction of unit one began in 1979, and 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.

Trillo Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Status	Operational
Commission date	1988
Licence expiration	2028
Owner(s)	Iberdrola (48%)
Operator(s)	CNAT
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1003 MW
Reactors cancelled	1 x 1003 MW
Reactor type(s)	PWR

The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station in Vandellòs located close to the Coll de Balaguer pass (Baix Camp comarca) in Catalonia, Spain.

Unit one was a 508 MWe carbon dioxide gas cooled reactor modeled on the UNGG station at the Saint Laurent Nuclear Power Plant in France. It was shut down on 31 July, 1990, following a fire in one of its two turbogenerators in October 1989.

Unit two is a 1080 MWe PWR. The station's owners are: 72 % Endesa and 28 % Iberdrola.

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Construction began	1967
Commission date	August 2, 1972
Licence expiration	2027
Owner(s)	Endesa (78%)
Operator(s)	ANAV
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1087 MW
Reactors decom.	1 x 500 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation	7,023 GW·h
Net generation	191,546 GW·h

Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station at Cofrentes in Spain. Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant is located in the municipal area of Cofrentes (province of Valencia) at the tail of the Embarcaderos reservoir on the right bank of the Júcar river. It operates by means of a nuclear steam supply system made up of a BWR-6 type boiling light water reactor and a MARK 3 containment supplied by the US company General Electric.

Greenpeace are demanding that Spain’s Nuclear Security Council refuse to renew the plant’s permit to operate - which expires on March 19 2011– because of the extremely poor levels of security at Cofrentes.

Meanwhile, take a look at the renewable energy sector in Spain. According to a study by the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy released in November last year, the number of current direct jobs provided by the renewables industry is more than 75,000. Taking into account the official renewable growth forecast, Spain can expect to see a further 128,000 created by 2020. On the other hand, the nuclear sector in 2005 had just 4,124 employees, of which 52.8% were the permanent staff at nuclear power plants.

Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Construction began	1975
Commission date	March 11, 1985
Licence expiration	2034
Owner(s)	Iberdrola
Operator(s)	Iberdrola, S.A.
Reactor information
Reactors operational	1 x 1092 MWe
Power generation information
Annual generation	8,872 GW·h
Net generation	164,579 GW·h

Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Lemoniz, Spain in 1983 when the Spanish nuclear power expansion program was cancelled following a change of government. Its two PWRs, each of 900MWe, were almost complete but were never operated.

Conflict concerning the Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant was one of the major anti-nuclear issues in the 1970s and 1980s in Spain.

The building of the Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant was opposed by ETA, a terrorist Basque independentist organisation. The first attack on the site took place on 18 December 1977, when an ETA commando unit attacked a Guardia Civil post which was guarding the station. One of the cell members, David Álverez Peña, was injured in the attack and died a month later. On 17 March 1978, ETA planted a bomb in the reactor of the station, causing the death of two workers (Andrés Guerra and Alberto Negro), and wounded another two. The explosion also caused substantial material damage to the facility, which set back construction.

On 3 June 1979, the anti-nuclear activist Gladys del Estal from Donostia died after being hit by a bullet from the police force Guardia Civil during a demonstration in Tudela (Navarra) on the international day of action against nuclear power. Ten days later, on the 13th of June, ETA managed to get another bomb into the works on the facility, this time in the turbine area. The explosion caused the death of another worker, Ángel Baños. Meanwhile, numerous demonstrations, activities and festivals attended by thousands were being held across the southern Basque Country by ecologists and left leaning groups to demand the closure of the station

The escalation of ETA's actions came to a head on 29 January 1981, when they kidnapped the chief engineer of the power station, José María Ryan, from Bilbao. They gave a week for the facility to be demolished and threatened to kill the kidnapped engineer. Although there was a large demonstration in Bilbao for the liberation of the engineer, and after the deadline for demolishing the station had passed, ETA killed Ryan, causing an outcry and the first anti-ETA strike.

However, the killing of Ryan resulted in the de-facto stoppage of works at the site, and the power company Iberduero, owner of the facilities, officially stopped the works while waiting for the Basque Government to explicitly support continuing the development.

The Almaraz nuclear power plant is located in the municipal area of Almaraz (province of Cáceres) at the tail end of the Arrocampo reservoir on the left bank of the river Tajo. It consists of two PWRs of 939 and 894 MWe. The plant operates by means of a nuclear steam supply system made up of a pressurised light water reactor (PWR) supplied by the North American company Westinghouse.

Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant
Country	Spain
Construction began	1973
Commission date	September 1, 1983
Licence expiration	2021 (Almaraz 1) and 2023 (Almaraz 2)
Owner(s)	Iberdrola (53% of both), Endesa, Union Fenosa
Operator(s)	CNAT
Reactor information
Reactors operational	2 (total 1,900 MW)
Power generation information
Annual generation	19,692 GW·h
Net generation	325,437 GW·h

Ascó Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station at Ascó in Spain. It consists of two PWRs of 933 and 943 MWe.

An INES level 2 accident occurred on November 2007 at the Unit 1 reactor. The Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) was not advised of the leak until April 4. Although the leak happened in November, particles were not detected outdoors until March 2008.

CSN initially estimated that total radioactivity detected was about 235,000 becquerels. The council operating the plant later estimated that a maximum of 84.95 million becquerels of radioactivity were spilled. CSN announced it was changing the classification of the leak from Level 1 to Level 2 because of "inadequate control of radioactive material and of providing incomplete and deficient information to the controlling body." An investigation was opened and the director of the plant was fired.

Ascó Nuclear Power Plant
Official name	Central nuclear de Ascó
Country	Spain
Construction began	1971
Commission date	December 10, 1984 (1984-12-10)
Licence expiration	2023 (Asco 1) and 2025 (Asco 2)
Owner(s)	Endesa
Operator(s)	Asociación Nuclear Ascó-Vandellòs (ANAV) A.I.E. (ENDESA/ID)
Reactor information
Reactors operational	2 totaling 2060 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation	15,474 GW·h
Net generation	307,970 GW·h