Vandellos nuclear power plant

Vandellos nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Vandellos nuclear power plant is the 4th largest of 5 operating nuclear sites in Spain, holding 15% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 143rd of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1988; the unit is 38.0 years old, younger than the median of 41.0 in Spain.

The 2 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 3.9 to 7.0 years (median 5.4) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Ascó nuclear power plant (37 km), Cofrentes nuclear power plant (253 km) and Trillo nuclear power plant (295 km).

The current net rating of Unit 2 differs from its design net capacity by +12.6% (930 MW at design, 1,047 MW now).

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.