José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station

José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station
José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station
	Zorita NPP
Country	Spain
Coordinates	40°20′57″N 2°53′4″W
Status	Decommissioned
Construction began	1964
Commission date	August 13, 1969
Decommission date	April 30, 2006
Owner	Enresa
Operators	Union Electrica Fenosa, S.A.
Power generation
Units decommissioned	1 x 150 MW
Nameplate capacity	160 MW;
Annual net output	392 GWh
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The José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station (also known as Zorita^[1]) was a nuclear power station in Almonacid de Zorita, 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of Madrid, Spain.

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The power plant consisted of one single-loop PWR of 160 MWe, built by Zachry Construction Corporation for the Westinghouse Electric Company. It was operated by Unión Fenosa.^[2]

Construction of the power station started in 1964. It was commissioned in 1968 to Zachry Construction Corporation, and it operated from 1968 until 2006. In 2006, it was closed by ministerial order.^[2]

On 11 February 2010, Unión Fenosa transferred the site's ownership to Enresa, a Spanish company responsible for decommissioning the power station. Enresa planned to clear the site by the end of 2015.^[2]

In 2010, Westinghouse won a contract to dismantle the reactor internals, and another contract in 2013 to dismantle the reactor pressure vessel. In November 2019, dismantling of the containment building began, and by June 2022 the turbine building was also dismantled. By September 2023, the containment building void was filled with 9,500 cubic metres (340,000 cu ft) of soil. A final phase of site clean-up and testing will be carried out before declaration of the end of decommissioning.^[3]

The Spanish Nuclear Safety Council has investigated the plant's deficient safety system and a missing screw that prevented the reactor from resuming operations after a month-long refueling operation in December 2003.^{[citation needed]}