Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant

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Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant
Oskarshamn NPP
Country	Sweden
Operator	OKG Aktiebolag
Built	1965
Start of commercial operation	February 6, 1972
Reactors
Reactors active	3 (2308 MW)
Power
Total power generation in 2006	15,736 GWh
Average annual generation (last 5 yrs)	15,394 GWh
Net generation	389,797 GWh
Other details
As of July 25, 2007

The Nuclear power station Oskarshamn is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden. The plant is about 30 kilometers north of Oskarshamn directly at the Kalmarsund at the Baltic Sea coast and with three reactors produces about 10% of the electricity needs for Sweden. All reactors use BWR technology.

Unit 1 has an installed output of 487 MW, block 2 had 627 MW. Unit 3, which newest reactor block had an installed output of 1,194 MW. The nuclear power station Oskarshamn is thereby one of the largest power stations in the nordic area by production.

There is also a temporary storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from all Swedish reactors.

1 Operator
2 History
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Operator

The responsible Utility is OKG, short the Oskarshamnsverkets Kraftgrupp OKG, which was acquired by Sydkraft in 1993, which is called E.ON Sverige currently. E.ON Sverige owns 54.5% and the other partner Fortum 45.5% of OKG.

[edit] History

On July 25, 2006, there were identical incidents in Units 1 and 2 and the plant was provisionally shut down.

On May 21, 2008, according to the Norwegian newspaper article in Aftenposten, the Swedish Aftonbladetand the Swedish The Local paper, a welder was caught on the entrance security check with trace elements of explosives on a carrier bag and his hand. The same evening reactor 1 of the facility was shut down to allow bomb teams to sweep the facility. With Police investigations ongoing, Kalmar police spokesperson Sven-Erik Karlsson confirmed to the TT news agency that a welder on his way in to the plant on Wednesday morning was caught with a relatively small amount of a highly explosive substance.