The Oskarshamn 2 nuclear reactor in southern Sweden will be taken offline Thursday after the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority ordered an immediate shut-down due to safety concerns.
The Oskarshamn 2 nuclear reactor in southern
Sweden
will
be taken offline Thursday after the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority ordered
an immediate shut-down due to safety concerns.
The authority said the reactor's operator, OKG, which is owned by German
utility E.ON AG (EOAN.XE) and Finnish Fortum Oyj (FUM1V.HE), hasn't been able
to show that important safety functions comply with the required standards.
The authority's concerns relate mainly to diesel generators which are part of
the plant's backup power system.
"One of the diesel generators was not serviced as planned in 2011. That
now has to be done," Leif Karlsson, head of section at the authority said.
"The other generator needs to go through at least a 48-hour durability
test."
The Oskarshamn 2 reactor is one of three at the Oskarshamn plant. It went
online in 1974 and has a maximum capacity of 661 megawatts.
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