Learning by Doing: The First Spanish Nuclear Plant

Torre, Joseba De la; Varas, María del Mar Rubio

doi:10.1017/s0007680518000053

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“…This led in 1962 to a proposal to construct a nuclear power facility 70 km east of Madrid, which was accepted in 1963. The Jose Cabrera (or Zorita) facility opened in 1968 (De La Torre and Rubio-Varas, 2018).…”

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Nuclear energy promotion using collectable cards aimed at children

Aramendia-Muneta

2020

JHRM

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how an innovative concept was introduced to a new market segment through varied marketing techniques. Design/methodology/approach Newspapers from 1958 were reviewed to assess the impact of a chocolate company advertising campaign targeting children. The paper examines the interpretation of the campaign message and the information contained in an album of collectable cards. Findings Parents leave the teaching role in the hands of companies when they do not clearly understand new technologies such as nuclear energy. Companies can take advantage of what governments introduce into the market to increase their sales. Originality/value The originality of the paper lies in the examination of collectable cards as a means of researching marketing history and contributes to the study of market segmentation, particularly in the case of children, focussing on nuclear energy.

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Section: Methodology and Materialsmentioning

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Nuclear energy promotion using collectable cards aimed at children

Aramendia-Muneta

2020

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“…Mac-Veigh returned from the US convinced of the possibilities offered by energy generated from the fission of uranium (De la Torre & Rubio-Varas 2016 : 4–5; De la Torre 2017 : 41–42). In a study published in 1957, he insisted that Spain would face a significant deficit in conventional energy by 1970 and estimated the nuclear power that Spain required to counter this at 350 MW (Mac-Veigh 1957 : 93).…”

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Atomic Technologies and Nuclear Safety Practices in Spain During the 1960s

Pablos

2022

N.T.M.

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The acquisition of a nuclear power reactor from the North American company Westinghouse in 1964 not only brought atomic practices and knowledge to Spain but also introduced new methods of industrial organization and management, as well as regulations created by organizations such as the US Atomic Energy Commission (US AEC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This article analyzes the history of the knowledge, regulations and experimental practices relating to radiation safety and protection that traveled with this reactor to an industrial space: the Zorita nuclear power plant. Within this space, the appropriation, use, and coproduction of knowledge and practices were conditioned by political, economic, industrial and social factors, and by the engineers, researchers and other professionals who contributed expert knowledge. Material held in the Tecnatom Historical Archive—the engineering company that coordinated construction of the plant—is the main source for this work, which delves into the history of knowledge and atomic technologies and adds to the historiography of radiological protection in Spain.

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“…Nevertheless, this approach was not adopted at the beginning. The lack of sufficient business capabilities in Spain tilted the multinationals towards a different strategy in the first phase, based on the 'turnkey contract' model (De la Torre & Rubio-Varas, 2018a).…”

Section: The Spanish Nuclear Race: Industrial Policies and Business Strategiesmentioning

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Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: The Spanish strategies to deal with US, french and german nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985

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We analysed the process of construction and connection to the electrical grid of four Spanish nuclear power plants with different financial and technological foreign partners: those of Zorita (PWR by Westinghouse), Garoña (BWR by General Electric) and Vandellós I (GCR by EDF) (belonging to the first generation of atomic plants and producing electricity from 1969-72) and that of Trillo I (PWR by KWU, connected in 1988). These four examples allow us to observe how the learning curve of nuclear engineering and the acquisition of skills by Spanish companies evolved. Progressively the domestic industry achieved higher levels of participation, fostered by the Ministry of Industry and Energy. When the atomic plants under construction were paralysed by the nuclear moratorium of 1984, and several other projects were abandoned by the utilities along the way, Spain had developed an industrial sector around the fabrication of service components and engineering for nuclear power plants to compete internationally.

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Learning by Doing: The First Spanish Nuclear Plant

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Nuclear energy promotion using collectable cards aimed at children

Nuclear energy promotion using collectable cards aimed at children

Atomic Technologies and Nuclear Safety Practices in Spain During the 1960s

Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: The Spanish strategies to deal with US, french and german nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985

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