Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor 3 at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.
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CountrySweden
LocationForsmark
Coordinates60°24′12″N 18°10′0″E / 60.40333°N 18.16667°E / 60.40333; 18.16667
StatusOperational
Commission date1980
  • Forsmarks Kraftgrupp
OperatorVattenfall
Nuclear power station
Reactor typeBWR
Cooling sourceBothnian Sea
Power generation
Units operational1 × 1010 MW
1 × 1120 MW
1 × 1190 MW
Nameplate capacity3,320 MW
Capacity factor84.5%
Annual net output24,000 GW·h
External links
Websitekarnkraft.vattenfall.se/forsmark
CommonsRelated media on Commons

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden that provides 14% of Sweden's total electricity output, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste. It is operated by a company mainly owned by Vattenfall.

The radiation monitors at Forsmark were the first outside the Soviet Union to detect the elevated radiation levels resulting from the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986, over 1,000 km away, forcing the Soviet government to publicly acknowledge it after two days of them trying to cover it up.[1]

  1. ^ "Chernobyl haunts engineer who alerted world". CNN Interactive World News. Cable News Network, Inc. 26 April 1996. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2008.