This The government is considering keeping the radioactive waste in Cofrentes. central nuclear until 2088 In the face of difficulties in building a Central Temporary Warehouse that receives waste from all over Spain. Presenting the country’s denuclearization roadmap last week, the Director is investigating whether each of the seven Spanish factories has a Decentralized Temporary Warehouse to store waste (basically burying all the waste in one spot) until the final solution is activated. Spain is several kilometers deep). The government project (included in the 7th General Radioactive Waste Plan and Strategic Environmental Study proposal) states: By 31 December 2020 Cofrentes has accumulated 851 tons of used uranium (which is highly polluting) and will generate 24,914 cubic meters of low-, medium- and high-level radioactive waste between now and the closing date in 2030.
Spain initially chose to reprocess the waste from the first nuclear power plants (Vandellós I, José Cabrera and Santa María de Garoña) at the following plants. France y United Kingdom. In 1982, this practice was abolished and it was decided that each Spanish factory would temporarily store spent fuel (uranium) in its own pools. As a result of the first strategy, the reprocessing of radioactive waste, whether or not it should be returned to Spain depending on the contracts, was achieved. Currently, radioactive waste resulting from the reprocessing of spent fuel from the Vandellós nuclear power plant and remaining in France must be returned to Spain.
Cofrentes, which started its operations in 1985, it stored all the uranium spent in the reactor in two pools within the complex.. The pools were 98% full last year, necessitating the construction of a dry temporary warehouse used to free up space in the pools so that the facility can continue to operate.
The solution for spent uranium was to be the planned Central Temporary Depot at Villar de las Cañas in the municipality of Cuenca, but two years ago the Government rejected this location for a nuclear cemetery. The main problem is that the citizen refuses to store this type of nuclear. In this context, the Administrator is now considering two alternatives: a Central Temporary Depot elsewhere, or seven Distributed Temporary Depots (ATDs) with each of the seven Spanish nuclear power plants.
waste plan
7. General Radioactive Waste Plan It provides the possibility of Cofrentes, Almaraz, Ascó, Santa María de Garoña, José Cabrera, Trillo and Vandellós II power plants to have a warehouse. It has sufficient storage capacity to accommodate all the waste generated during the operation and dismantling of the facilities. In parallel, whatever the final solution, the Manager gave the green light to the expansion of the Cofrentes dry warehouse (as this newspaper reported in the summer) to save time.
The shutdown plan confirms that Cofrentes will stop in November 2030, dismantling will begin in 2033 and dismantling will be finished in 2043.