When Forsmark 3 restarts, Vattenfall now plans to run the reactor without shutdown until 2026, the company said, cancelling a 27-day outage period previously scheduled to commence in March next year.

STOCKHOLM, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Swedish power group Vattenfall [VATN.UL] said on Tuesday an inspection had revealed one broken control rod and cracks in about 30 percent of others at its Forsmark 3 ...

In September, Forsmark 3 has returned to service with 17 MWe more power after work to replace the unit's high-pressure turbine. The uprate work took place during the unit's scheduled annual outage ...

Sweden's Vattenfall reported that it has inspected just over half of the 169 control rods of the Forsmark 3 reactor and found that some 30% have signs of cracking. At the end of October, cracks were ...

Siemens PG previously replaced the low-pressure turbines of Forsmark Unit 3 in 2004 and is now to supply a total of four new high-pressure turbines for Forsmark 1 and 2.

Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...

1. This photo montage shows the final deep geological repository for 12,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, in Sweden. The total length of the tunnel system is more than 60 kilometers.

Westinghouse Electric Co. was selected by Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB to provide replacement nuclear fuel deliveries and related engineering services for three of their nuclear reactors.

At the Forsmark 3 nuclear power plant in eastern Sweden, workers practise their response to a simulated accident. This facility is the youngest reactor in a Swedish fleet that provides around 40% ...

The Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate has denied permission for reactor 2 at the Forsmark nuclear power station to restart, and has ordered an inspection of reactor 3 at the same plant. The decision ...

Vattenfall has cancelled its planned 2025 maintenance at the Forsmark 3 nuclear reactor, due an ongoing extended outage this year, the Swedish utility said in a statement on Monday. The company on Nov ...