A fire started at 8:45 has forced a shut down at the plant and the activation of the Nuclear Emergency Plan in Tarragona, according to the CSN. A problem in the electric generator appears to be the cause of the fire. The alert was cancelled at 10:30. "All security systems have performed according to plan and have not been affected. Right now the plant is off and stable", says the report. The Asociación Nuclear Ascó - Vandellòs (ANAV), [i.e. Endesa] which runs the plant is working to determine the origin and evaluate the damage. ... ...CSN explained that the fire was produced by the "heating of some component in the electric generator". However, Greenpeace and Ecologistas en Accion .... have asked for the cancellation of the exploitation permit and the paralization of the plants Asco I, Asco II and Vandellos II run by ANAV, due to the cummulative number of accidents they have. A plant with diverse incidents Last July.... Last April... a level 2 escape that forced a local evacuation. In May 2007, CSN president call Endesa executives to demand explanations about the triple number of incidents than in other nuclear plants. That same year, the plant was shut down for four months due to a severe malfunction in the refrigeration system.
The Asociación Nuclear Ascó - Vandellòs (ANAV), [i.e. Endesa] which runs the plant is working to determine the origin and evaluate the damage. ...
...CSN explained that the fire was produced by the "heating of some component in the electric generator".
However, Greenpeace and Ecologistas en Accion .... have asked for the cancellation of the exploitation permit and the paralization of the plants Asco I, Asco II and Vandellos II run by ANAV, due to the cummulative number of accidents they have.
A plant with diverse incidents Last July.... Last April... a level 2 escape that forced a local evacuation.
In May 2007, CSN president call Endesa executives to demand explanations about the triple number of incidents than in other nuclear plants. That same year, the plant was shut down for four months due to a severe malfunction in the refrigeration system.
There are drawings and location map here: http://tinyurl.com/5rkvqy
http://www.foronuclear.org/ is the big nuclear players PR page and has good info about who they are.
P.S. The CSN is at least ineffective and always late to take appropriate measures, but the courts have ordered a fine between €9-22 million against Endesa for the previous Asco incidents.
How can these companies be relied upon to provide ´base load´, with this performance? Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
