Located in the province of Valencia, the 1,092MW Cofrentes power station is owned by Iberdrola and generates electricity using a GE boiling water reactor (BWR) that commenced operation in 1985.
Nuclenor owns the 466MW Santa Maria de Garona nuclear plant, which is located in the province of Burgos and uses a GE BWR that has been in operation since 1971.
The six-year, multi-cycle services agreement also contains options to extend the contract to ten years.
GEH will provide outage and refueling services including drywell and vessel head disassembly/assembly, reactor pressure vessel maintenance, and visual and ultrasonic inspections.
Genusa, the European BWR fuel joint venture between Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) and Spain-based nuclear fuel firm Enusa, will provide nuclear fuel reloads under a separate deal.
GNF is the GE majority-owned fuel fabrication and fuel engineering services venture jointly established by GE, Hitachi and Toshiba.
