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The Spanish Nuclear Park After the Renovation of Almaraz: How It Is and What Is the Calendar of Closures of the Rest of the Plants in the Country

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Almaraz will continue to operate, at least until 2030. The Government has renewed the authorization to operate the two reactors of the Extremaduran nuclear power plant. The Official State Gazette (BOE) published on Friday the decision of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) following the favorable report of the Nuclear Security Council. Thus, units I and II of the Almaraz nuclear power plant will be a…

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The government has said that it does not intend to extend the service life of more nuclear power plants. It has said this week after having authorized four more years the operation of the Extremadura nuclear power plant in Almaraz. But this is a decision that must be reconsidered with regard to the three nuclear power plants in Catalonia. Ascó I, Ascó II and Vandelós produce 56% of the electricity consumed in the whole community and cannot be di…

·Barcelona, Spain
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Almaraz will continue to operate, at least until 2030. The Government has renewed the authorization to operate the two reactors of the Extremaduran nuclear power plant. The Official State Gazette (BOE) published on Friday the decision of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) following the favorable report of the Nuclear Security Council. Thus, units I and II of the Almaraz nuclear power plant will be a…

·Madrid, Spain
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Nuclear energy specialist Manuel Fernández Ordonez has pointed out in esRadio that it will produce "a change" in the closing schedule.

The PP senator by Guadalajara María Patricio demands that the government extend the Almaraz nuclear power plant until 2030 not be an isolated case and that the executive review the closing schedule of all Spanish facilities, including that of Trillo. The 'popular' warns that the measure "will be insufficient" if the executive does not extend the same logic to the rest of the nuclear park and demands that Trillo's future be decided with technical…

The Spanish government decided to extend the operation of the Almaraz nuclear power plant until June 2030, thus delaying the decommissioning of the two reactors, initially scheduled for 2027 and 2028.

·Bucharest, Romania
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The closing date for the nuclear power plants in the country dates back to 2019, when an agreement was reached to close the seven existing reactors in the neighbouring country at 2035. The postponement of the closure of the Extremadura power plant is lifting this on the plan to "close the doors" of the other reactors.

·Porto, Portugal
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Libertad Digital broke the news on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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