31 December 2020
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Ringhals 1 today became the fourth reactor to close in Sweden in the last seven years. The unit, on the west coast of the country, was permanently disconnected from the national grid after 44 years of operation, according to data from its operator, Ringhals AB, which is owned by Vattenfall (70.4%) and Sydkraft Nuclear Power (29.6%).
The four-unit Ringhals plant (Image: Vattenfall)
Ringhals 2 was shut down in December 2019 following a 2015 decision to close the reactors five years earlier than originally planned, for commercial reasons.
Unit 1 began a maintenance outage on 13 March, but on 18 June Ringhals AB entered into an agreement with national electricity transmission system operator Svenska Kraftnät regarding the availability of the unit. The agreement secured the voltage stability and short-circuit power in the transmission network to handle the operating situation in southern Sweden during the summer. It was subsequently resynchronised to the gri
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