Among other things, the plant has had its steam generators and control room replaced, survived a fire and had the bottom plate of its reactor containment renovated. Ringhals 2 was put into commercial operation in 1975, and ever since then has led an eventful life, with both ups and downs. "Now the circle is closing - I'm pulling down what my dad built up," as he puts it. The decommissioning is particularly significant for Roger Olsson, since his father was among the staff who started up reactor 2 at Ringhals 44 years ago, in 1975. You become a family that eats dinner and celebrates holidays together."
"There's something special about working in shifts. "What I feel sad about is that the shift team will be split up," says Roger Olsson. The closing day would have come in any case - now it's just coming a few years sooner," says David Hedman.Īll three of them agree that what they will miss most of all in the future is the people and the sense of community in the shift team.
"Ringhals 2 will need to be staffed for at least another couple of years. Although the reactor will be closing at the end of December, none of the three are particularly concerned about the future, and they say that in spite of everything there is a good atmosphere among the staff: Roger Olsson, David Hedman and Viktoria Olsson all started in the control room at Ringhals 2 almost 15 years ago. The closure decision was taken for commercial reasons, and although the price of electricity has recovered since 2015, the assessment is that it would not be possible to continue operation of either of the two reactors, for both economic and practical reasons. Reactor 2 is to close this year and reactor 1 next year, 2020, which means that the reactors will close five years earlier than originally planned. The decision to close two reactors at Ringhals was taken in 2015. On 30 December the other turbine will also be shut down and electricity generation will cease. In November the output fell to below 50 per cent and one of the turbines was taken out of operation. This means that the reactor output falls as the energy in the fuel decreases. The final shutdown of Ringhals 2 began back in September, when the plant went into a phase called coast down. At the end of the year, Ringhals 2 will shut down operations and stop supplying electricity to the Swedish power grid.
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