Norwegian nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft and Austrheim Municipality have established a new company to look at the potential deployment of a nuclear power plant consisting of several small modular reactors (SMRs).
The planned plant would be built “in the immediate vicinity” of an oil refinery operated by Equinor at Mongstad, in Austrheim municipality about 60 km south of Bergen in the southwest of the country.
Norsk Kjernekraft said the refinery is Norway’s largest point source of CO2 emissions.