Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor 3 at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.
Country	Sweden
Location	Forsmark
Coordinates	60°24′12″N 18°10′0″E / 60.40333°N 18.16667°E / 60.40333; 18.16667
Status	Operational
Commission date	1980
Owner(s)	Forsmarks Kraftgrupp
Operator(s)	Vattenfall
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	BWR
Cooling source	Bothnian Sea
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 1010 MW 1 × 1120 MW 1 × 1190 MW
Nameplate capacity	3,320 MW
Capacity factor	84.5%
Annual net output	24,000 GW·h
External links
Website	karnkraft.vattenfall.se/forsmark
Commons	Related media on Commons
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Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden that provides 14% of Sweden's total electricity output, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste. It is operated by a company mainly owned by Vattenfall.

The radiation monitors at Forsmark were the first outside the Soviet Union to detect the elevated radiation levels resulting from the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986, over 1,000 km away, forcing the Soviet government to publicly acknowledge it after two days of them trying to cover it up.^[1]