Westinghouse Electric Company announced Monday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract with OKG (Uniper), a major supplier of base load to the Nordic power supply system.
Provided the plant is in operation and under the terms of the contract, Westinghouse will continue to provide reload fuel assemblies for the remaining Oskarshamn 3 unit until 2030, the company said.
This contract continues the important relationship between OKG and Westinghouse’s Västerås Fuel Fabrication Facility in Västerås, Sweden. Westinghouse vice president and managing director, Northern Europe Aziz Dag said the contact is "confirmation of the extensive trust OKG has put in Westinghouse Sweden´s continued ability to deliver high-performance fuel assemblies"
Westinghouse is a leading BWR-fuel supplier in Northern Europe, said Dag.
Westinghouse will deliver 10×10 SVEA96 Optima3 fuel to the Swedish plant. However, in 2018 Westinghouse will also introduce its next generation 11×11 BWR fuel design TRITON11TM, which has been designed to provide superior fuel economy while maintaining the highest focus on a safe and reliable operation.
“The fuel fabrication facility in Västerås was established to deliver fuel to the Swedish nuclear fuel program. The first delivery was made to OKG’s first reactor Oskarshamn 1, and now, 50 years later, I am proud to say we are still supplying OKG and other customers around the world with the most modern fuel designs,” said Johan Lundberg, managing director, Swedish fuel operations