Nuclear power plant in Cordoba, Argentina. Approximate location -32.2316, -64.4422.
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EMBALSE is a 648 MW nuclear power station in Cordoba, Argentina. It is operated by NASA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,459,666 homes (estimated). It ranks #15 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1984, it is around 42 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 7.0% of Argentina's electricity; the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000112.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by NASA. All plants by this company →
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 32.2°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 56% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 27/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #2 largest nuclear power plant of 3 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 3 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 1,763 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -32.2316, -64.4422 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
