Cofrentes nuke to start winding down Sunday

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Sunday for maintenance and refuelling, an official at the plant said Thursday. "The outage will begin on Sunday," the official said. The 994MW plant, in southeastern Spain, would be down for around 28 days, the official said. Cofrentes said earlier that its aim was to complete all maintenance and refuelling work and have the plant back up and running by Easter, which falls in late March this year. Cofrentes is 100% owned by Spanish power major Iberdrola. One other Spanish nuclear reactor is planning an outage in March. The 1,009MW Vandellos-2 (Endesa 72%, Iberdrola 28%) is to shut in mid-March for about a month, a plant official said Thursday.