Vattenfall will have to shut down four of its five commercial nuclear power reactors in Sweden by 2025 due to uncertainty over how the government plans to deal with the storage of used nuclear fuel, the state-owned utility warned on Tuesday.
The Swedish government last week approved an expansion of the Clab interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, but delayed a decision on a permanent repository.
In an urgent market message to Nord Pool, seen by NucNet, Vattenfall said the move has created uncertainty over whether storage will be available in time to secure the operation of the country’s reactors. The company said the possibility of restarting four reactors at the Forsmark and Ringhals stations after maintenance in 2024 and 2025 is “not foreseeable at the moment”.
The Swedish government last week approved an expansion of the Clab interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, but delayed a decision on a permanent repository.
In an urgent market message to Nord Pool, seen by NucNet, Vattenfall said the move has created uncertainty over whether storage will be available in time to secure the operation of the country’s reactors. The company said the possibility of restarting four reactors at the Forsmark and Ringhals stations after maintenance in 2024 and 2025 is “not foreseeable at the moment”.
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