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Sweden / Vattenfall Warns Of Reactor Shutdowns After Government Delays Repository Decision

By David Dalton
31 August 2021

Interim facility could soon be full with nowhere else to store spent fuel from nuclear plants
Vattenfall Warns Of Reactor Shutdowns After Government Delays Repository Decision
Vattenfall is majority owner of three operational reactors at Forsmark and two at Ringhals (pictured). Courtesy Vattenfall.
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.

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