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About 3,000 barrels of nuclear radioactive waste misplaced in Sweden Monday, 17 May 2021 9:36 AM
[ Last Update: Monday, 17 May 2021 9:40 AM ] Nearly 3,000 radioactive barrels are mislaid in Forsmark, Sweden. (File Photo)
Nearly 3,000 barrels of “life-threatening” nuclear waste have reportedly been misplaced in Sweden, raising concerns about potential environmental impacts and prompting calls for an urgent re-inspection of the radioactive material.
A stock control inspection has recently found that 2,800 barrels containing historical radioactive waste from the 1970s and 1980s were stored incorrectly in a warehouse in Forsmark, Uppland County.
The Forsmark nuclear plant and repository, located some 100 kilometers north of Stockholm, contains over 30,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste.
The threat level at all nuclear facilities in Sweden has been raised after an explosive was found at a plant in Ringhals near Gothenburg. Onsite sniffer dogs detected the device on June 20 as the truck on which it was hidden made its way into the reactor area.
“Under the first step onto the truck there is a fire extinguisher and that is where the explosive had been placed,” Gösta Larsen of the Ringhals plant told news agency TT. He added that police suspect the explosive, which was about the size of a fist, was probably made by a civilian and planted on the truck.
Pipeotech s Reach Goes Atomic
Research facility European Spallation Source (ESS), the most powerful neutron source in the world, to use DeltaV-Seal
Norway s Pipeotech has taken gasket tightness to new microscopic levels by going atomic as it is supplying its guaranteed leak-proof DeltaV-Seal to ESS, the world s most powerful neutron source, in Lund, Sweden.
The new research facility is one of the largest and most advanced technology infrastructure projects being built anywhere in the world today and it will enable a more powerful range of experiments using neutrons than previously possible, providing a significant step forward in the science of everyday life.
18 December 2020
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The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has today approved the independent core cooling systems implemented by the operators of the country s nuclear power plants. The operators were required to introduce such systems following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi. The systems were to be in place by the end of this year in order for the reactors to continue operating.
Oskarshamn unit 3 (Image: OKG)
All European nuclear power plants were required to undergo stress tests following the March 2011 accident at Japan s Fukushima Daiichi plant. Recommended safety improvements were drawn up through peer reviews of these stress tests.
In October 2014, SSM announced a two-stage set of upgrades it wanted to see at Sweden s operating nuclear power reactors. By 2017, all reactors were required to have independent systems to ensure power and water are available for emergency cooling for a period of 72 hours. SSM said this requirement could be met by means such as mobi