While the deadline is approaching, the announced closure of all Spanish nuclear power plants by 2035 causes more and more shields in Spain. Tuesday, February 25, conservative presidents of the autonomous regions of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, and Estrémadure, Maria Guardiola, signed a “Action Protocol” aimed at leading ” A common front “ To force the government of the socialist Pedro Sanchez to postpone the closing date of the Almaraz power station.
Located in the province of Caceres, Estremadure, and providing 7 % of the electricity consumed in Spain (and 15 % of Madrid demand), this nuclear installation is both the most powerful in Spain and the first on the list To have to extinguish its two reactors, the first from 2027, the second in 2028, according to the plans established in 2019 under the left government.
“The closure of the central operations will cause irreversible damage to Spain, which does not count the necessary technological infrastructure and is not ready to replace nuclear energy”, said M Tuesdayme Ayuso, of the People's Party (PP, right), believing that this decision “Compromises national security”. “Spain cannot afford a nuclear cut and an ideological closure”, Drivenme Guardiola (PP), after a visit to the power plant, inaugurated in 1973 and owned by companies Iberdrola, Naturgy and Endesa.
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Source: Lemonde