A company which says “the time is right” for Norway to return to nuclear power has submitted a proposal to Norway’s ministry of oil and energy as the first formal step towards the possible construction of the country’s first commercial nuclear power plant.
Bergen-based Norsk Kjernekraft, part of the M Vestt energy gas and oil group, said the proposal is for an assessment of the construction of a power plant based on multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in the municipalities of Aure, northern Norway, and Heim in central-west Norway.