Ågesta nuclear power plant

Control room of the nuclear power plant in 1966

location

Coordinates

59 ° 12 '22 " N , 18 ° 4' 57" E Coordinates: 59 ° 12 '22 " N , 18 ° 4' 57" E

Country:

Sweden

Data

Owner:

Vattenfall AB

Operator:

Vattenfall AB

Project start:

1957

Commercial operation:

May 1, 1964

Shutdown:

June 2nd 1974

Decommissioned reactors (gross):

1 (12 MW)

Energy fed in since commissioning:

398 GWh

Was standing:

August 1, 2007

The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Ågesta nuclear power plant ( Swedish Ågestaverket ) was the first Swedish nuclear power plant to be used for commercial electricity and heat generation. Construction began in 1957 and work was completed in 1962. The power plant was blown up into a mountain near Ågesta in Huddinge and was in operation from 1964 to 1974. It produced mainly district heating for the Stockholm district Farsta , but also a small portion of electrical energy.

ASEA , Stockholms Elverk and Statens Vattenfallsverk were responsible for the construction . Before the construction work was completed, a much larger reactor was built in Marviken, just outside Norrköping . This construction project was never completed and the Marviken power plant is now burning oil.

The output of the reactor in Ågesta, at only 10 MW, was much smaller than the later Swedish reactor types. The reactor was part of the so-called Swedish line ( den svenska linjen ), which aimed to achieve international independence through the use of indigenous, non-enriched uranium fuel elements with heavy water as moderator.