Uniper Plans Small Reactors as Swedish Power Demand Set to Jump
- German utility seeks funding for non-nuclear prototype reactor
- Sweden needs new power capacity to meet electrification demand
The idle reactor hall at Oskarshamn-3, nuclear power plant.
Source: OKG
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Uniper SE is making plans to build small-scale nuclear reactors in Sweden as demand for electricity is poised to climb in the next decade.
Four older reactors have shut permanently in the past few years, leading to soaring costs in the south during cold winter days and even triggering the start of an almost 50-year-old oil plant. This caused a fierce political debate about the need for more local generation as most new capacity is wind turbines in the north.