At OKG in Oskarshamn, Sweden’s first electrical test reactor is built in over 40 years, sealer-e, with lead cooling. The project is led by the company Blykalla in collaboration with Uniper, ABB and KTH, and has received SEK 99 million in support from the Swedish Energy Agency.
The reactor, which is expected to be in operation in 2026, aims to demonstrate and commercialize innovative nuclear technology.
– There are small, compact nuclear power plants that can be manufactured in an automated factory in a much shorter time than today’s reactors. It will be more cost -effective, says Janne Wallenius, professor of reactor physics KTH and co -founder of Blykalla.
The government is also investing in nuclear research 2025–2028, with grants of SEK 600 million- of which SEK 100 million goes to pilot and demonstration projects.
Another SEK 120 million will go to nuclear basic research.
The government’s nuclear efforts criticized by experts
Several experts that SVT’s Agenda has talked to criticize the government’s nuclear power plans, which believe that the investment is at risk of displacing other types of power and calling for an investigation into the socio -economic consequences. But Ebba Busch (KD) dismisses the criticism.
In an interview in Agenda, she called the criticism “misleading and an opinion”.
Hear Business and Energy Minister Ebba Busch (KD) answer- in the clip below.