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21 Feb (NucNet): Spain’s Santa Maria de Garoña nuclear power plant is safe to operate until 2019, Spain's nuclear security agency (CSN) has said in response to a request by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism to review the facility.
According to CSN, there are no safety or security issues that should prevent the modification of a ministerial order of July 2009 that established July 2013 as the shutdown date for the single-unit, 440-megawatt boiling water reactor.
The CSN approval paves the way for the Spanish conservative government to modify the 2009 ministerial order. In 2009 CSN said the plant could operate for another 10 years, but the government at the time opted instead to close it in 2013.
The ministry has also asked CSN to detail the conditions it would impose on a modification of the 2009 ministerial order.
Garoña, in the northern province of Burgos, began commercial operation in 1971 and is Spain's oldest nuclear power plant. It is owned and operated by Nuclenor.
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