Forsmark is a village with 59 inhabitants on the east coast of

Uppland Uppland () is a historical province or ' on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhab ...

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. It is best known as the location of the

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. It is operated by a company mai ...

. Another noteworthy facility in Forsmark is the static inverter of HVDC Fenno-Skan, just west of the nuclear power plant. Because of the sensitive instruments for detecting local leaks of radioactivity, the

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was the first place outside the

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where signs of the

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were detected on April 27, 1986. When workers at the plant were found to carry radioactive particles, the origin of the leak was investigated and it eventually became clear that the contamination came from the atmosphere rather than from the Forsmark plant itself.

History

Forsmark formerly had an ironworks producing

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External links

Forsmark kraftgrupp
(Forsmark Powergroup), page also available in English. Populated places in Uppsala County Ironworks in Sweden {{Uppsala-geo-stub