SSM does not believe in closed reactors – Swedish Dagbladet

SSM does not believe in closed reactors – Swedish Dagbladet

SSM welcomes the fees for nuclear waste to be raised, but think it is wrong if politicians begin to micromanage safety.

– We’ll have to wait and see what they really agree on what they are actually proposing and what we get the directive authority, says Lennart Carlsson, Advisor to the Director General on the SSM.

The Social Democrats and the Green Party’s energy agreement is three points regarding nuclear power: that security will be tightened, to nuclear waste fee should be raised and that the Vattenfall plans To prepare for the construction of new nuclear power should be interrupted.

SSM has proposed an increase in nuclear waste fee from 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour to 3.8 cents per kilowatt hour. It has been circulated for comment and will soon end up on the government’s table, and S and MP supports thus uplift.

– Historically, it has been that it has lowered the proposals on fee increases a little from the government’s reach, so there is well if they approve the fee at the level we have proposed.

TT: Do you think it will lead to some reactors shut

– No, I do not think any penny more or less on the price makes a big difference.

The first Swedish reactor to close will probably Oskarshamn 1, built in 1972, the think Carlsson will not run for more than 50 years. Oskarshamn 2 is stationary for more than a year, but even if the stop may last for more than a year to plan Eon eventually large investments in the form of power increases in the reactor, although now been running for 40 years.

In the agreement, it is not defined which heightened security S and MP wants to see, but Lise Nordin, MP’s energy policy spokesman, said yesterday that it may relate to increased requirements on independent core cooling system. Where SSM has concluded that the oldest reactors will be allowed to have mobile cooling units, while the reactors that are a bit newer must build solid units.

– The safety authority should be independent. Politicians can always “override” the decisions, but my understanding is that the authorities will do the safety needed says Carlsson.

Vattenfall has paid 100 million to the SSM for investigating new nuclear power, and it is money that today employs 17 people in authority.

– This has meant that there is a competence of the authority which may also be useful to suggest improvements in the existing reactors.