Barsebäck nuclear power plant

location

Coordinates

55 ° 44 ′ 40 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 15" E Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 40 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 15" E

Country:

Sweden

Data

Owner:

Sydkraft Nuclear Power AB ( Uniper )

Operator:

Barseback Kraft AB

Project start:

1969

Commercial operation:

July 1, 1975

Shutdown:

May 31, 2005

Decommissioned reactors (gross):

2 (1230 MW)

Energy fed in since commissioning:

187,018 GWh

Was standing:

August 1, 2007

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

The shutdown Barsebäck nuclear power plant is located in Barsebäck in the municipality of Kävlinge in Skåne in Sweden .

history

The land for the nuclear power plant was bought in 1965 by the utility company Sydkraft and the first reactor was ordered from Asea -Atom in 1969 . Unit 1 became critical for the first time on January 18, 1975 , and Unit 2 followed on February 20, 1977. The first reactor was synchronized with the grid for the first time on May 15, 1975, the second on March 21, 1977. The reactors were in commercial operation since July 1, 1975 and July 1, 1977.

Since it is only 20 kilometers from the Danish capital Copenhagen , the Danish government urged that the nuclear power plant be shut down first as part of the Swedish nuclear phase-out .

The first block, Barsebäck 1, was shut down on November 30, 1999 and the second, Barsebäck 2, on May 31, 2005. At the time of decommissioning, both reactors had an output of 600 megawatts each . The nuclear power plant was operated by Barsebäck Kraft AB , a subsidiary of Ringhals AB , which in turn belongs to Vattenfall and Eon Kärnkraft Sverige AB (now a subsidiary of Uniper ).

In 1973, after a very authentic representation of a simulated nuclear power plant accident, the so-called Barsebäck panic occurred.

In July 1992, however, there was a serious incident in Unit 2. When the reactor was restarted after an overhaul, a leak occurred in the cooling circuit. Fibrous insulating material was torn from the neighboring pipes by the water flowing out. Since the outflowing water is pumped up again from the reactor sump, the sieves in front of the emergency pumps became clogged and over time the pumping system failed. By temporarily reversing the pumping direction, the blockages could be resolved after a few hours, after which the pumps could work again at full power. Because the reactor was only in the run-up phase, hardly any decay heat was generated during this time.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Barsebäck nuclear power plant has a total of two decommissioned units :

Reactor block	Reactor type	Net power	Gross output	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercial operation	Shutdown
Barsebäck-1	Boiling water reactor	600 MW	615 MW	1.02.1971	05/15/1975	07/01/1975	11/30/1999
Barsebäck-2	Boiling water reactor	600 MW	615 MW	01/01/1973	03/21/1977	07/01/1977	05/31/2005