3 Mar (NucNet): Westinghouse Electric Company signed a nuclear fuel contract with Sweden’s OKG, owner and operator of the 3-unit Oskarshamn nuclear power station.
Provided the plant is in operation, Westinghouse will continue to provide reload fuel assemblies for the Oskarshamn-3 unit until 2030. This contract continues an existing relationship between OKG and Westinghouse’s Vasteras fuel fabrication facility in Sweden.
Westinghouse will deliver its SVEA96 Optima3 fuel for the A1,400-MW boiling water reactor unit. In 2018 Westinghouse will also introduce its next generation BWR fuel design TRITON11, which has been designed to provide superior fuel economy.
In February 2017, OKG said it would permanently shut down the 473-MW Oskarshamn-1 nuclear unit in the middle of 2017. Shareholders have also voted to shut the 638-MW Oskarshamn-2 ahead of schedule, also due to financial reasons. The closures do not affect Oskarshamn-3, which could continue to operate until 2045.
