Vattenfall is applying to the local authority for approval to draw up a detailed plan to build new nuclear power reactors near the existing Ringhals nuclear station on the Varo Peninsula in western Sweden.

The Swedish state power company already owns most of the land area west of Ringhals, where it operates two pressurised water reactor units that have been online since the early 1980s. Another two plants at the site, south of Gothenberg, have been shut down since 2019 and 2020.

Vattenfall said that for new reactors to be built new detailed plan needs to be drawn up and it is therefore applying for a planning notice from Varberg municipality.

Desirée Comstedt, project and development manager for nuclear power at Vattenfall, said the company plans to “put new reactors into operation in the early 2030s”.