The government has been working on the development of the new system in recent years. General Radioactive Waste Plan (PGRR). The manager already has a definitive version of the roadmap on how to manage waste, how to dismantle nuclear power plants and how much and how to pay for all work over the next decades. However, the final approval of the plan, whose final official approval by the industry is expected to be imminent, will not come until later. next general election 23J.
This Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera confirmed that the full processing of the future PGRR had actually been completed, but gave a final ‘okay’ by the Government beyond the elections at the end of July. “We must take more relevant measures in the short term and we will probably have to address this Waste Plan after the elections,” he told the press before speaking at the annual convention of the Wind Energy Association (AEE).
GovernmentThis is how the debate during the election campaign on the construction of nuclear cemeteries for Spain. Pedro Sánchez Manager’s plan is to build seven different warehouses, one at each of the Spanish nuclear power plants, to store radioactive waste.
The aim is to contain nuclear waste after the closure of each power plant, which is planned to be phased out between 2027 and 2035. in 2073 and keep the waste forever.
After keeping both options open for months, the Socialist Administration finally refused to build a single nuclear cemetery to store the waste and committed to having seven different warehouses. On the contrary, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s People’s Party not only advocates a review and postponement of the nuclear power plant shutdown program between 2027 and 2035, agreed with the electricity companies, but also openly supports the option of a single depot and the revitalization of the project. build Villar de Cañas in Cuenca.
Villar de Canas case
Only a month after Pedro Sánchez’s arrival in Moncloa following the 2018 no-confidence motion, the recently released Administrator paralyzed all operations related to the construction of a central temporary depot (ATC) in Villar de Cañas and prompted the Security Council to suspend the Nuclear Security Council. (CSN) has temporarily suspended project work because technicians doubted the quality of the land and the District Administration refused.
In recent months, the People’s Party has advocated and defended by its candidate the reactivation of the Villar de Cañas project in the Congress of Representatives as one of the measures in its programmatic proposal to deal with the energy crisis. Mayor of the town of Cuenca in the last election campaign of the 28M elections (he became the winner).
from Ministry of Ecological Transition It has been argued that the “lack of social, political and institutional consensus” that emerged at the time the draft of the new General Radioactive Waste Plan was alleged made the option of a single central repository “not feasible”. From the nuclear sector, this is considered to be due to the fact that: no autonomous community supported the possibility of hosting a nuclear cemetery in their own territory, despite the interest of some municipalities.
In fact, the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, headed by the socialist Emiliano García Page (re-elected with an absolute majority in the last regional elections), has demonstrated over the years – persistently and of course – with legal reforms. the courts…- his unequivocal refusal to build the nuclear cemetery at Villar de Cañas. The selection of the municipality of Cuenca to host the ATC was approved in 2011 by the Mariano Rajoy Government with the support of the regional Board headed by the then-popular María Dolores de Cospedal.
plan and electricity
The current government’s plan to build seven nuclear cemeteries is the most rejected option among power companies. operating power plants, as it is the most expensive alternative (€2,100 million more than building a single warehouse) and condemns the existing sites of nuclear power plants to store this waste for decades and before they can develop other industrial projects. In the field after the closure and dismantling of the power plants.
Nuclear companies in which Iberdrola, Endesa, Naturgy and EDP are integrated have already been warned from employers’ associations. oppose incurring the multimillion-dollar extra cost of owning seven stores and necessary to guarantee the safety of surrounding facilities and the treatment of waste. Of particular concern to electricity companies is the unexpected extra cost that has to be paid by 2100 to manage nuclear waste (19,200 million when opting for seven temporary silos), as sources in the nuclear sector confirm. 2,000 million at fixed prices in relation to the previous draft, which would lead to an increase in the rates that power plants pay to finance waste management.
Endesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy and EDP attribute these extra costs to the enormous delay accumulated by the old project. construction of a central temporary warehouse in Villar de Cañas due to lack of political consensus and therefore they refuse to undertake them. The proposal of the major electricity companies in the claims reports for the PGRR draft is to consider these additional amounts as the cost of the electricity system and charge them at the electricity rate that all consumers pay.