20 Sept (NucNet): The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has directed the operator of Oskarshamn nuclear power plant to submit a plan for correcting deficiencies in its programme for managing the aging and degradation of structures, systems and components that are important for safety at the facility.
The authority said in a statement that there are deficiencies in the plant’s existing plan for managing aging and degradation, and these deficiencies must be corrected. Plant operator OKG must submit a plan for correcting the deficiencies by 31 December 2013. The plan must include “time-specific measures” that should be implemented by 31 December 2014, SSM said.
There are three commercially operational boiling water reactors at Oskarshamn, on Sweden’s east coast. The oldest, Oskarshamn-1, began commercial operation in 1972.
