Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant

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Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant
Lemóniz NPP
Country	Spain
Coordinates	43°26′0″N 2°52′21″W / 43.43333°N 2.87250°W / 43.43333; -2.87250
Status	Decommissioned
Decommission date	1 April 1984
Owner	Iberdrola
Power generation
Units under const.	2 x 900 MWe (stopped)
External links
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Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant is an unfinished

, each of 900 MWe, were almost complete but were never operated.

Conflict concerning the Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant was one of the major anti-nuclear issues in the 1970s and 1980s in Spain.^[1] It faced major opposition from the Basque anti-nuclear movement and the Basque armed separatist organization ETA.

The building of the power station was opposed by

post guarding the station. One of the cell members, David Álvarez Peña, was injured in the attack and died a month later. On 17 March 1978, ETA planted a bomb in the reactor of the station, causing the death of two workers (Andrés Guerra and Alberto Negro), and wounded another two. The explosion also caused substantial material damage to the facility, which set back construction.

On 3 June 1979, the anti-nuclear activist

by ecologists and left leaning groups to demand the closure of the station.

The escalation of ETA's actions came to a head on 29 January 1981, when they kidnapped the chief engineer of the power station, José María Ryan, from Bilbao. Although a large demonstration was held in Bilbao for the release of the engineer, ETA killed Ryan after a week passed, causing an outcry and the first anti-ETA strike. However, by February 1982, a combination of factors brought construction to a halt. Stumbling blocks included popular doubts over the plant's safety and the interests behind it, ETA's violent action, and differing approaches of the Spanish and Basque autonomous government.^[4]

In May 1982 ETA assassinated Ángel Pascual, who had taken over the responsibilities from Ryan as chief project engineer.

The moratorium put an official end to the project.

See also

• Nuclear power in Spain

• WISE News Communique archive Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine July 21, 1995 Spanish banks to assume nuclear debt.
• Nuclear News Country Review: SPAIN (1994) at the
  INSC
  website.