Juragua Nuclear Power Plant

Juragua Nuclear Power Plant
The first reactor as seen from a nearby road in 2006.
Official nameCentral Electronuclear de Juraguá (in Spanish)
CountryCuba
LocationCienfuegos
Coordinates22°04′00.84″N 80°30′33.12″W / 22.0669000°N 80.5092000°W / 22.0669000; -80.5092000
StatusCancelled construction, abandoned
Construction began1983 (1983)
Decommission date
  • 1992
Nuclear power station
Reactor typeVVER-440 V318
Reactor supplierAtomstroyexport
Power generation
Units cancelled2 × 440 MWe
Nameplate capacity
  • 880 MW
External links
CommonsRelated media on Commons

Juragua Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Cuba when a suspension of construction was announced in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of Soviet economic aid to Cuba. Russia and Cuba sought third-country financing to complete the plant in the mid-1990s but in 2000 the two countries agreed to abandon the project.

A workers' town, Ciudad Nuclear, was built next to the plant and is inhabited today with many buildings left in a half-finished state.