Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden that provides 14% of Sweden's total electricity output, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: nuclear power plant
- Also known as: “Forsmarks Kärnkraftverk”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste and Forsmark Church.
Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste
Landfill
The final repository for short-lived radioactive waste is a radioactive waste repository in Forsmark, Sweden operated by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company. Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste is situated 2½ km east of Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.
Forsmark Church
Church
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Forsmark Church is situated 3½ km south of Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forsmark.
Forsmark
Village
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Forsmark is a village with 59 inhabitants on the east coast of Uppland, Sweden. It is best known as the location of the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant. Another noteworthy facility in Forsmark is the static inverter of HVDC Fenno-Skan, just west of the nuclear power plant. Forsmark is situated 3½ km south of Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
- Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
- Location: Forsmark socken, Frösåker, Östhammar Municipality, Uppsala County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.40378° or 60° 24′ 14″ northLongitude
18.16753° or 18° 10′ 3″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Inception
1980Operator
Forsmarks KraftgruppOpen location code
9FGWC539+G2OpenStreetMap ID
way 80230741OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة فورسمارك للطاقة النووية”
- Chinese: “福斯马克核电站”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Forsmark”
- Danish: “Forsmark atomkraftværk”
- Dutch: “Kerncentrale Forsmark”
- Finnish: “Forsmarkin ydinvoimalaitos”
- French: “centrale nucléaire de Forsmark”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire de Forsmark”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Forsmark”
- Italian: “centrale nucleare di Forsmark”
- Italian: “Centrale nucleare di Forsmark”
- Japanese: “フォーシュマルク-”
- Japanese: “フォルスマルク原子力発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forsmark kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Forsmark kjernekraftverk”
- Persian: “نیروگاه هستهای فورسمارک”
- Portuguese: “Central nuclear de Forsmark”
- Russian: “АЭС Форсмарк”
- Spanish: “Central nuclear de Forsmark”
- Swedish: “Forsmarks kärnkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “Форсмарська АЕС”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant”. Photo: Dennis140, Public domain.