Nuclear power is needed to stabilise Spain’s electrical system and the country should rethink its planned phaseout following last week’s unprecedented blackout, the head of lobby group Foro Nuclear, Ignacio Araluce, said on 6 May.

The outage that hit the Iberian Peninsula on 28 April has reignited the debate over the plan to decommission all of Spain’s commercial nuclear power reactors by 2035.

Some reactors were offline the day of the blackout, whose causes are being investigated.

Araluce said the logical response would be to keep the nuclear energy Spain has.