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Revision as of 07:27, 17 February 2011

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Source(s) for pictures

Data:

  • Operator: Ringhals AB, which is owned by Vattenfall (70,4 %) and E.ON Kärnkraft Sverige AB (29,6 %)[1]
  • Capacity: total 3707 MW[2], R1: 855MW, R2: 866MW, R3: 1051MW, R4: 935MW[3]
  • (How much radiation it sets free?)
  • Dates of construction & operation:
    • Start of construction:R1: Feb 1969, R2: 1970, R3 and R4: 1972
    • Start of commercial operation: R1: Jan 1976, R2: May 1975, R3: Sept 1981, R4: Nov 1983[4]
  • Electricity production: 28 TWh/year (almost 20 % of Sweden's electricity consumption)[5]
  • type of reactor: One BWR (R1) and three PWR (R2, R3 and R4)[6]
  • (Sizes) Ringhals industrial area is ca 3 km²[7]
  • how much waste a reactor produces per year: (source about waste & management: http://www.vattenfall.se/sv/radioaktivt-avfall.htm , will investigate later -imota)
  • Fuel Information: LEU.
  • Employees: 1529 (2010-12-31)[8] Several hundreds of extra subcontractor personnel during maintenance periods every summer.[9]
  • number of people living around the facility:
    • Varberg municipality: 57,747 (June 30, 2010)[10]
  • number of accidents:

Coordinates: 57°15′35″N 12°6′39″E

Summary:

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E.g., on the 21th of August 2007, R3 had a short-circuit in one of its steam generators due to a monkey-wrench that had been "forgotten"(?) inside it when it was renewed 1995... The wikipedia article lacks primary sources, but i'll investigate it properly later.

  • one of the largest employers in Halland county[11], and one of the largest worksites in Europe.[12]
  • "apart from the production, there's also a great deal of research and development carried out here."[13]
  • A major project of modernisation and effectivisation started 2007, with a budget of 22 million SEK.[14]

Resistance

contact details of critical groups working against this facility

  • group name, phone, email, website, postal address

Links

links to operator and critical websites

References