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One dead and three injured after incident at Ascó's nuclear facility
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Power shifts in southern Catalonia - from nuclear to wind
Many locals in the Terra Alta region are fed up with the number of wind farms being built in their area
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Catalan researchers shed light on treatment for metastatic breast cancer
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New tax to provide 12 million euros to nuclear energy zones in Catalonia
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Nuclear cemetery designation mired with controversy, but radioactive waste management unavoidable
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Ascó Nuclear Power Plant’s information centre receives international award for architecture
The information centre at Ascó Nuclear Power Plant in Catalonia has won one of the prestigious International Architecture Awards, organised by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Arquitecture and Design. Ascó’s building, located in Southern Catalonia and designed by the Catalan architects Olga Felip and Josep Camps, was one of 81 projects from 21 countries to receive the prize. The jury highlighted the incorporation of the centre with the nuclear power plant, and its harmony with the surrounding landscape. The materials selected by the architects are designed to emulate day and night.
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Protest against nuclear cemetery in Tarragona
Four hundred people block a road to oppose the nuclear warehouse at Ascó. The village has posted its candidature to host this controversial equipment, which will store all the nuclear waste produced in Spain in the last years and in the next decade.