Lemoniz
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Per Diem Rates FY 2026
Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$246
Lodging/Night
$146
M&IE/Day
$392
Total/Day
Spain: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.
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43.433, -2.87286
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Plant Facts
About This Site
Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Wikipedia: Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant; Auñamendi Encyclopedia: Lemoniz.
Lemóniz is a nuclear power plant on the Basque coast north of Bilbao that was built almost to completion but never operated. The utility Iberduero planned two pressurized water reactors of about 930 MWe each, and the government gave provisional approval in 1972.
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The project met strong local opposition and was a target of the Basque separatist group ETA, whose attacks on the site began in December 1977; ETA later killed two of the project's senior engineers, in 1981 and 1982. Work stopped in the early 1980s, and the plant was abandoned under the nuclear moratorium Spain approved in 1984.
Never operated: halted by the 1984 moratorium