eon wants to close swedish nuclear reactor
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E.ON wants to close Swedish nuclear reactor

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German energy group E.ON
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German energy group E.ON said Tuesday it wants to close Swedish nuclear reactor Oskarshamn 2 in the next few years because it is unprofitable.

"In E.ON's view, the economic prerequisites for investments to run Oskarshamn 2 beyond 2020 do not exist, and... the prerequisites do not exist either for the measures that would be required to continue operations until 2020," E.ON Sweden said in a statement.

E.ON proposed that existing plans to modernise the reactor -- which has been plagued by technical problems for years and is currently closed for repairs -- instead be redirected towards closure.

"Conditions on the electricity market have changed dramatically in recent years," E.ON Sweden's chief executive officer Jonas Abrahamsson said.

"A long period of low electricity prices, combined with a tax on nuclear power which is being raised now as well as extensive investment requirements, lead to profitability problems, especially for small reactors such as Oskarshamn 2," he said.  

The reactor, located in southeastern Sweden, has been in service since 1974, and was built with an original lifespan of about 40 years. It is in need of a major modernisation if it is to continue beyond 2020, when new cooling requirements take effect.

Sweden has 10 reactors at three nuclear power plants, which generated 39 percent of the electricity used in the country in 2013.

However, plans are underway to eventually decommission the Oskarshamn 1 reactor, which has been in service for 50 years.

And Sweden's state-owned energy group Vattenfall said in April it planned to speed up the shutdown of two reactors by up to seven years, to 2018 and 2020, at the Ringhals plant in southwestern Sweden.

E.ON is the majority shareholder in OKG, the company which owns the Oskarshamn reactors.

Minority shareholder Fortum, a Finnish energy group, said meanwhile it was opposed to a closure of Oskarshamn 1 and 2.

"We would prefer to continue to run Oskarshamn 1 and 2," Fortum nuclear power director Tiina Tuomela told Swedish news agency TT.

"We agree that the situation in Sweden is challenging, we are also concerned about the competitiveness of nuclear power. But it is important to study all the alternatives before making a big decision like this," she said.

 

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