Embalse nuclear power plant
Embalse nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station in Argentina with 1 operating unit totalling 656 MW gross. The site has 1 unit on record in total.
Units
| Unit | Status | Type | Model | Gross MW | Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embalse nuclear power plant | PHWR | CANDU 6 | 656 | 1984 |
Embalse nuclear power plant in context
By gross operating capacity Embalse nuclear power plant is the 2nd largest of 2 operating nuclear sites in Argentina, holding 37% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 165th of 172 worldwide.
Its operating unit started up in 1984; the unit is 42.0 years old, the same as the median in Argentina.
The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 9.1 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.
No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.
Build time by unit
| Unit | Construction start | Grid connection | Years | Fleet median, same decade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embalse nuclear power plant | 1974 | 1983 | 9.1 | 7.3 (1980s) |
How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.
Earthquakes nearby
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Magnitude 4.0 and above within 200 km of Embalse nuclear power plant's listed coordinates, past 30 days. This is distance, not shaking: it says nothing about damage or any change in operation. Every plant.
| Location | Córdoba, Argentina |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | -32.2316, -64.4422 |
| Elevation | about 540 mabove sea level |
| Setting | About 570 km from the sea |
| Region | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Units by status | Operating: 1 |
Elevation is read at the listed coordinates from a 30 m terrain model (SRTM 30 m). Two independent models differ by a median of 6 m across our plants and by up to about 40 m on steep or coastal ground, and a point on a shoreline can read as sea level. Distance to the water is measured to a generalised 1:10 million coastline, so a few kilometres or less is not resolved. This is context, not a design-basis or flood-risk figure.
| Owners | Nucleoelectrica Argentina SA |
|---|---|
| Operators | Nucleoelectrica Argentina |
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Sources
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
- GEM.wiki entry (further reading) , CC BY-SA 4.0, linked, not quoted
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data