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The Swedish Parliament - the Riksdag - yesterday narrowly rejected a proposal from the nationalist Sweden Democrats party to reverse the planned closure of the two oldest reactors at the Ringhals nuclear power plant. Unit 2 of the plant was shut down at the end of last year, with unit 1 set to close later this year.

Date: Friday, 24 January 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Swedish-parliament-votes-down-Ringhals-motion

Unit 2 of the Ringhals nuclear power plant in Sweden was yesterday permanently shut down, ending 44 years of operation and 215 TWh of generation. Ringhals 1 is scheduled to shut down next year.

Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ringhals-2-enters-retirement

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has completed the segmentation of the reactor internals of units 1 and 2 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden, fulfilling a contract awarded by plant operator OKG AB in December 2016. Large-scale dismantling and demolition of the two boiling water reactors will begin next year.

Date: Friday, 20 December 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Dismantling-of-Oskarshamn-reactor-internals-comple

Sweden’s Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) approved the safety report for dismantling and demolition of the Barsebäck-1 and -2 nuclear plants about 30 km from Malmö in southern Sweden.

The Barsebäck station has two ABB-designed 600-MW boiling water reactor units. Barsebäck-1 was permanently shut down in November 1999 and Barsebäck-2 in May 2005.

Sweden’s government decided in 1997 that both units should be closed. Operator Barsebäck Kraft AB appealed and the closures were delayed.

In a separate move, more than 300 people lodged unsuccessful appeals to the supreme administrative court against the decision to close Barsebäck-2, including officials from the local municipality who claimed the closure violated Swedish environmental and industrial laws and EU legislation.

Date: Friday, 13 December 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/regulator-approves-safety-report-for-barsebaeck-dismantling-and-demolition-12-4-2019

Segmentation of the reactor vessel internals has begun at Sweden's Oskarshamn 2 boiling water reactor.

Date: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssegmentation-starts-at-oskarshamn-2-6153484

US-based Westinghouse Electric Company (recently taken over by Canada’s Brookfield) has completed dismantling the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) internals of Barsebäck 2, a 600MWe boiling water reactor in Sweden.

Date: Monday, 19 March 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdecommissioning-progress-at-swedens-barsebck-6087602

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has submitted a 147-page report to the government regarding the planned dismantling of units 1 and 2 at OKG’s Oskarshamn NPP. The report is required under the 1957 Euratom Treaty, which governs the EU’s nuclear industry. The Swedish government will forward the report to the European Commission. The report says dismantling the two units will not have “more than a negligible impact” on the environment in any EU member state. There are three boiling water reactors at Oskarshamn. Unit 1 began commercial operation in 1972 and unit 2 in 1975. Oskarshamn 3, the largest unit, began commercial operation in 1985 and is scheduled to continue until 2045. In October 2015, OKG’s shareholders voted to close Oskarshamn 1 and 2 citing concerns about their economic viability. Unit 2 has been shut down since 2013 and will not be restarted, and unit 1 is to close this year.

Date: Friday, 19 May 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedish-regulator-reports-on-oskarshamn-dismantling-5819647

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has lifted its special supervision regime on OKG, the operator of the Oskarshamn NPP, according to a 1 July statement. The three-unit plant has been operating under special supervision since December 2012, after SSM decided that actions taken by OKG to address weaknesses related to five areas of safety culture identified in 2011 had been insufficient.

Date: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedish-regulator-lifts-special-supervision-at-oskarshamn-npp-4941367


Unit 1 at Sweden's Oskarshamn NPP will close permanently in mid 2017, owner OKG said on 17 February. OKG CEO Johan Dasht said this was best from an economic and safety perspective. The shutdown date will require approval from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and the local Land and Environment Court. In October, a majority of OKG's shareholders voted to close the reactor between 2017 and 2019, before the end of its technical lifetime, because continued operation would not be profitable. Oskarshamn 1, Sweden's oldest reactor, is a 473MWe boiling water reactor (BWR) that started up in 1972.

Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoskarshamn-1-to-close-in-2017-4820313


The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten - SSM) has recommended that the operators of four reactors that will shut earlier than planned - Oskarshamn 1&2 and Ringhals 1&2 - should pay higher waste fees to ensure the waste fund is sufficient.

Date: Tuesday, 08 December 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssweden-to-increase-waste-fees-for-utilities-4749047