GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Tuesday it has completed the first of two reactor segmentation operations for Sweden’s Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant.
The work on Unit 2 is covered under a contract the Wilmington, N.C., company received in January 2017 for the OKG AB-operated plant near the city of Oskarshamn.
Working underwater, personnel disassembled, segmented, and packaged the parts of the boiling-water reactor that was retired in 2015 after 41 years of service. Corresponding work continues on reactor Unit 1, which closed in 2017 following 45 years of operation, according to a GE Hitachi press release.
The release does not say when GE Hitachi expects to complete the project. When it secured the contract, segmentation of Unit 1 was expected to wrap up in 2020.
The third reactor at Oskarhamn remains operational.