|  The José Cabrera nuclear power station in Almonacid de Zorita (Guadalajara), Spain's oldest and smallest nuclear plant, will be shut down indefinitely tonight at 11.30pm after 38 years service.
A spokesman from the Unión Fenosa company that owns the installation informed that the plant's night shift staff will be responsible for the shutdown that will take place half an hour before the expiry of its current and last operational licence.
The plant is the first of Spain's nuclear installations to be de-commissioned.
It will take several years to render the site completely safe. Tonight's procedures involves two stages: the first to disconnect the electrical turbine, and the second to start the reactor cooling process, a process that will take several days. |
