Swedish Radiation Safety Authority

Type: Organization

Name: Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM)

Nationality: Sweden

Web Address: http://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se/

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 2 reports

Ringhals AB

Fire at Ringhals nuclear plant

News agency TT reports that the fire was put out after a few minutes, by the plant's own firefighters.Ringhals spokesman Gösta Larsen says to TT that Reactor 1 will run at 50 percent capacity while they investigate the site of the fire.Reactor 1 had been ... [Published Sveriges Radio - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Ringhals AB, Nuclear, Reactor, Gösta Larsen, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Forsmark nuclear power plant loses power

A reactor at the Forsmark reactor north of Uppsala lost power Thursday night, an incident that the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has classified as a category 1 event, the most serious on the scale. But authorities say the general public was never ... [Published Radio Sweden - May 31 2013]

Entities: Reactor, Forsmark, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Uppsala, Nuclear

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point

"As evidenced by the new stress test, Swedish nuclear power plants are both vulnerable and unprotected from threats - antagonistic or accidental - from the air," Annika Jacobson, head of Greenpeace in Sweden.The motorized paraglider dropped an item attached ... [Published Kansas City Star - May 22 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Reactor, Annika Jacobson, Nuclear

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Swedish Radiation Safety Authority

Still unclear if mobile phones cause cancer

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority says there is no scientifically backed evidence showing mobile phones cause cancer or brain tumors due to short-term use. But there are two areas where the risks are still unknown – among adults who have used mobile ... [Published Radio Sweden - May 03 2013]

Entities: Cellphone, Cancer, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority

First reported Mar 06 2013 - Updated Mar 06 2013 - 1 reports

Greenpeace International

Greenpeace says classified doc is cover-up

A legal battle has broken out around the safety of Swedish nuclear power plants. Environmental organization Greenpeace wants to know if there is a risk of meltdown similar to what happened in Fukushima, Japan in 2011. But the Swedish Radiation Safety ... [Published Radio Sweden - Mar 06 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Radiation, Environmental Organization

First reported Feb 16 2013 - Updated Feb 16 2013 - 1 reports

Vattenfall AB

Vattenfall CEO: There is a future for nuclear

The state-owned energy company Vattenfall plans to invest several billion Swedish kronor in nuclear power even though no decision has been made in Sweden about whether to build new reactors. The initiative started last summer when Vattenfall submitted ... [Published Radio Sweden - Feb 16 2013]

Entities: Vattenfall AB, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plant

First reported Jan 28 2013 - Updated Jan 28 2013 - 1 reports

MTN Group Ltd

Mobile operators dismiss radiation health warning report

South African mobile heavyweights, Vodacom and MTN, have criticised a report warning against the harmful effects of using mobile phones.The report, conducted by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012, warns that evidence for risks to health from electromagnetic ... [Published Businesstech.co.za - Jan 28 2013]

Entities: Radiation, MTN Group Ltd, Vodacom Group Ltd, World Health Organization, Non-Ionizing Radiation

First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Questions raised over nuclear waste copper

A new report from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority indicates that the copper in which it is hoped Swedish nuclear waste will be stored can corrode and break down, raising doubts about its use. The authority says their tests seem to show the metal ... [Published Radio Sweden - Jan 25 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Waste, Copper, Swedish Nuclear Fuel & Waste Management Company, Nuclear Fuel

Quotes

"The smoke came from oil inside the insulation on one or several of the pipes in the turbine hall" emergency services spokesman Roger Banck told the TT news agency

Fire hits Swedish nuke plant near Gothenburg [Published The Local Sweden - Jun 12 2013]

"This is serious because the facility wasn't built for this. We had to manually start it up to use the backup power" Idehaag tells Swedish RadioRadio news

Forsmark nuclear power plant loses power [Published Radio Sweden - May 31 2013]

"As evidenced by the new stress test, Swedish nuclear power plants are both vulnerable and unprotected from threats - antagonistic or accidental - from the air" Annika Jacobson, head of Greenpeace in Sweden

Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point [Published Kansas City Star - May 22 2013]

...pretty sure that there are no health risks up to a 15-year period," Lars Mjönes, the secretary on the council, tells Swedish RadioRadio news. "But to be completely sure, we need to continue to follow up on this during the next ten to fifteen years."

Still unclear if mobile phones cause cancer [Published Radio Sweden - May 03 2013]