Reactor Closure

WNISR Essential News – 3 January 2021 WNISR Permanent Closure of Swedish Reactor Ringhals-1 WNISR 3 January 2021 On 1 January 2021, Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced that its 46-year-old Ringhals-1 reactor had been closed. Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant — Photo Vattenfall The 760-MW Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), located on the Varo Peninsula 65km from Gothenburg, was connected to the grid on 14 October 1974 and was closed on 31 December 2020. The Ringhals plant is owned by Vattenfall (70.4%) and Sydkraft Nuclear Power (29.6%). A parliamentary motion on 22 January 2020, (...)