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POWER: Forskmark 3 Reactor to Return Wednesday Morning in Unplanned Halt

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Vattenfall’’s 1.17GW Forsmark Block 3 nuclear reactor is now scheduled to resume full output a day later on 5 February amid an unplanned outage, remit data showed.

  • The unit was originally scheduled to return with full capacity on 4 February.
  • An unplanned outage from 17:000CET on Monday is reducing output by 822MW until 18:00CET. After that, output will be curtailed by 472MW until 10:00CET on 5 February.
  • Capacity at the plant had been curtailed due to valve problems. 
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Vattenfall’’s 1.17GW Forsmark Block 3 nuclear reactor is now scheduled to resume full output a day later on 5 February amid an unplanned outage, remit data showed.

  • The unit was originally scheduled to return with full capacity on 4 February.
  • An unplanned outage from 17:000CET on Monday is reducing output by 822MW until 18:00CET. After that, output will be curtailed by 472MW until 10:00CET on 5 February.
  • Capacity at the plant had been curtailed due to valve problems.