Sweden’s biggest nuclear reactor was taken off the grid after a turbine failure on Wednesday. It is the third incident at the country’s southern Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant this year.
“The issue that caused the shutdown has now been fixed,” Desiree Liljevall, the spokeswoman for the plant’s operator, OKG, said, adding that the reactor will be relaunched soon.
“We know what has happened, but we can’t comment on it,” Liljevall added.
The Oskarshamn facility is one of the country’s three active nuclear power plants. Its reactor is Sweden’s biggest electricity producer.
The reactor was previously shut down for a week in February due to a fuel leak, and later shut down for a day in July.
The plant’s two other reactors stopped operating in the 2010s, as Europe has largely been on course to transition to alternative energy sources and a ‘green economy’.
