The Spanish company Genusa wins a contract to supply Forsmark fuel reloads
May 03, 2018

The Spanish company Genusa wins a contract to supply Forsmark fuel reloads

Genusa, a Madrid-based joint venture between the Spanish nuclear cycle company Enusa and US-based Global Nuclear Fuel, has won a contract to provide fuel reloads for the Forsmark nuclear power station in Sweden.

The new fuel supply contract awarded to Genusa, which is owned in its majority by GNF, runs from 2020 until 2023 and includes a total of eight relads of GNF2, a high-performance fuel assembly designed to deliver increased energy output while decreasing overal fuel cycle costs. The eight reloads comprise four reloads each at Units 1 and 2.

The first fuel delivery of GE design for Vattenfall dates from 1993

GNF is a joint venture of GE, Toshiba and Hitachi. The first fuel delivery of GE design for Vattenfall dates from 1993. Since then, more than 2,500 fuel assemblies have fueled the Vattenfall reactors in Sweden.

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