Spain / Government Abandons Cuenca Nuclear Waste Repository Project

Existing plant sites to act as interim storage

Government Abandons Cuenca Nuclear Waste Repository Project
Villar de Canas in the province of Cuenca, the central Castile-La Mancha region, has been considered for more than a decade to be the likely site for final disposal of nuclear waste. Image courtesy municipality of Villar de Cana.

The Spanish government has abandoned its plan for a waste storage site at Villar de Canas in Cuenca region, local media said Tuesday.

The construction of the site was planned to be completed by 2018, but due to political and social opposition the project has never got off the ground despite the acquisition of the land.

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