Challenges abound for nuclear power plants in today’s world, with increased competition from other fuels, stricter safety regulations, divided public opinion, and low electricity prices providing an ...

Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall has signed an agreement with the Industrikraft i Sverige AB consortium for ...

OSLO (Reuters) -Swedish utility Vattenfall said on Tuesday it had delayed the restart of the Ringhals 4 nuclear reactor by two months to Jan. 31, in a further setback to power supply in the Nordic and ...

Vattenfall has signed an agreement with Industrikraft consortium to invest in small modular reactors at Ringhals, supported ...

OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Swedish utility Vattenfall has delayed the restart of the Ringhals 4 nuclear reactor by two months to Jan. 31, it said in a market message on Tuesday. "The unforeseen ...

Reactor 4 at Sweden’s 3,700 MW Ringhals nuclear power plant, the country’s largest, was shutdown Dec. 20 after “an infiltration of seawater,” The Local reports. No safety problems were associated with ...

ESPOO, Finland, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) was for the first time used to evaluate data in a qualified ultrasonic inspection during outage at ...

The Swedish power grid will experience a period of additional strain in August, when outages at the Ringhals 3 and 4 nuclear reactors cut output in the south of the country, grid operator Svenska ...

STOCKHOLM — The restart of Sweden’s Ringhals 4 nuclear reactor will be delayed by three months after a key component was damaged following an annual maintenance and fuel replacement shutdown earlier ...

OSLO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Swedish utility Vattenfall said on Wednesday it was investigating the possibility of building 2.8 gigawatts (GW) of new nuclear capacity at its existing Ringhals site on the ...

The following month it confirmed Ringhals 2 would be decommissioned in June 2019 and Ringhals 1 in June 2020. At its board meeting today, the board of directors of Ringhals AB decided to extend the ...

Värö Peninsula, in Varberg municipality, about 65 km south of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Ringhals nuclear power plant has a total power output of about 3 932 MW and produces 20% of all the electricity ...