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Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant

Cofrentes, El Valle de Cofrentes-Ayora, Valencia

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Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant

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The Cofrentes nuclear power plant is a BWR-6 type electricity generation plant, located next to the El Plano site, on the right bank of the Júcar river, from which it draws water for cooling, about 2 kilometres southeast of the town and 3 kilometres from the Cofrentes volcano, considered extinct. It entered service on 14 October 1984 with an output of 992 MWe, progressively expanded to the current 1,110 MWe, which allows it to cover a large part of the domestic consumption of the Region of Valencia. It is owned by Iberdrola. It has an information centre on nuclear energy visited by around 12,000 people a year.

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