Westinghouse completed a major decommissioning project at the former Barseback nuclear power plant in Skane, Sweden, the company announced on Friday.
According to the statement, the operation of Barseback's unit 2 was shut down in 2005 and decommissioning work began in August 2016.
Westinghouse's scope of work included the underwater segmentation and packaging of the reactor vessel internals, as well as the upfront engineering studies and equipment manufacturing and qualification.
'Westinghouse is proud to deliver this major decommissioning project on time and on budget,' Yves Brachet, Westinghouse senior vice president was quoted as saying.
'Our global expertise in this area will help our customers in the Nordic region to safely manage a variety of end-of-life opportunities for commercial nuclear power plants,' Brachet added.
Westinghouse is now due to begin decommissioning work on Barseback unit 1, and plans to complete it in April 2019.
Barseback is an ABB-designed boiling water reactor (BWR) plant in the south of Sweden, 30 kilometers from Malmo. The first reactor, Barseback 1, closed down on Nov. 30, 1999, and the second, Barseback 2, ceased operation on May 31, 2005.
Both units one and two of the 600-megawatt boiling-water-reactors commenced operations in 1975 and 1977, respectively, according to the World Nuclear Association.
By Huseyin Erdogan
Anadolu Agency
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