OKG AB is a Swedish corporation who owns and operates the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant

Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear power station Oskarshamn is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden. The plant is about 30 kilometers north of Oskarshamn directly at the Kalmarsund at the Baltic Sea coast and with three reactors producing about 10% of the electricity needs of Sweden...

. It is part of the E.ON

E.ON

E.ON AG, marketed with an interpunct as E•ON, is the holding company of the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The name comes from the Greek word aeon which means eternity....

 group.

The three reactors, Oskarshamn 1-3, was manufactured by ASEA Atom and was put into operation in 1972, 1974, and 1985, respectively. At the reactor site, some 30 km north of Oskarshamn, OKG also operates CLAB

Clab

Clab, Centralt mellanlager för använt kärnbränsle is located in proximity to Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant, owned by Oskarshamnsverkets Kraftgrupp AB , in Oskarshamn. It was opened in 1985 for the storage of spent nuclear fuel from all Swedish nuclear power plants...

 – Sweden's central interim storage facility for radioactive waste

Radioactive waste

Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material. Radioactive wastes are usually by-products of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology, such as research and medicine...

. From 2006-10-01, however, CLAB will be transferred to SKB

SKB

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 (Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB or Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co).

Nuclear reactors

All three reactors are boiling water reactor

Boiling water reactor

The boiling water reactor is a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power. It is the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor after the pressurized water reactor , also a type of light water nuclear reactor...

s (BWRs). As of 2006, the maximum output for Oskarshamn 1 and 2 is 495 MW (O1) and 625 MW (O2). The most recent reactor, O3, will be upgraded from 1,200 MW to 1,450 MW in 2009. OKG estimates that O1, O2, and O3 combined account for ten percent of the total electricity generation in Sweden.

External links

• OKG.se: About OKG (English)
• Areva signs Swedish deals plus EPR reactor contract, Nuclear Engineering International, 30 January 2007