Nuclear power and the environment
All forms of electricity production affect the environment in some way. We give high priority to environmental issues, and our work is based on a comprehensive perspective combined with preventive activity.
From environmental point of view nuclear power comes off well in comparison with other techniques for producing electricity. This is true of the whole process, from uranium mining and fuel preparation to operation and waste management.
Vattenfall´s life-cycle assessments provides extensive information on resource use and environmental impacts from our power plants.
Nuclear power makes a negligible contribution to climate change since it does not emit CO2.
Life cycle assessment of Vattenfall´s electricity generation in Sweden (PDF 2,59 MB)
Environmental Product Declaration, EPD, for electricity from Forsmark (new window)
Environmental Product Declaration, EPD, for electricity from Ringhals (new window)
Emissions of radioactive substances well below prescribed limits
All reactors within Vattenfall’s nuclear power operations release very small amounts of radioactive substances into the atmosphere and water, well below prescribed limits. In some cases the emissions are one thousandth of the legal limit.
Thanks to among other things better performance and extensive maintenance work, these discharges have been successively decreased over the past twenty years. Correspondingly, improved operational and maintenance routines have reduced the radiation doses to which personnel are exposed to very low levels.
Read about Radiation (PDF 292 kB)
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