February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Oskarshamn":
Politics: 21 Jan 12
Håkan Juholt on Saturday announced his resignation as leader of the Social Democrats in a hastily called press conference in his home town of Oskarshamn in southern Sweden.
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Politics: 21 Jan 12
Despite Friday’s announcement by the Social Democrat Executive Committee that embattled leader Håkan Juholt will remain at the helm, many now believe that he will announce his resignation on Saturday afternoon.
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Politics: 20 Jan 12
The Social Democrats' executive committee expressed its continued confidence in embattled party head Håkan Juholt on Friday following two days of intense meetings about his leadership.
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National: 25 Dec 11
Murders, break-ins and accidents made it a busy Christmas holiday weekend for the police and emergency services across Sweden this year.
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Science & Technology: 23 Oct 11
A nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden was closed down late on Saturday night after a fire broke out at the plant.
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Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500).
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Society: 3 Jun 11
A Swedish sailor called sea rescue services on Thursday morning believing his wife had fallen overboard when in fact she had never been on the boat.
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Politics: 30 May 11
Sweden's environment minister Andreas Carlgren has criticised Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear power stations by 2022 as "unrealistic", predicting that it will be forced to import nuclear power from EU partners.
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Politics: 25 Mar 11
As expected Håkan Juholt has been confirmed as the new leader of Sweden's Social Democrat party, following a vote at the party congress in Stockholm on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 19 Mar 11
The ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan has prompted renewed debate over nuclear power in Sweden, with a new poll indicating that a majority of Swedes are opposed to its expansion.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 11
Swedish nuclear safety expert Frigyes Reisch from the Royal Institute of Technology speaks with The Local's Gabriel Stein about how the situation in Japan may impact the nuclear energy development in Sweden.
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National: 2 Feb 11
Sweden's largest-ever crisis management exercise on how to act in the event of a nuclear accident was launched on Wednesday.
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National: 26 Oct 10
A district court in southern Sweden sentenced a man who lured 45 young girls and adolescents to pose in front of webcams to one year in prison on Tuesday.
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Society: 25 Oct 10
A Swedish elk hunter is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilogrammes.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
The year’s first snowfall has resulted in slippery roads in many parts of southern Sweden, with some areas received up to 10 cenitmetres of wet snow.
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National: 22 Aug 10
Police in Gävle in eastern Sweden have recovered a mountain bike that was stolen from a student twelve years ago – in a town 1,350 kilometres further north.
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Travel: 11 Aug 10
A town in south-eastern Sweden has all that enthusiastic rock climbers could need - but until now relatively few climbers have known about it. A new project means all that could be about to change.
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Society: 16 Jun 10
Dutch crime thriller writer Ton Theunis is the initiator of a project to establish a new "WitchWorld" theme park in Mönsterås, a rural municipality in southern Sweden.
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National: 3 Jun 10
The heads of Sweden's nuclear power plants have called for the installation of armed rapid reaction forces to be put in place in order to increase security.
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National: 4 Jan 10
All but one of Sweden's icebreakers have been called into action as half of the Gulf of Bothnia separating Sweden and Finland freezes over.
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Society: 1 Aug 09
A couple from Hultsfred in southern Sweden is demanding 38,000 kronor ($5,000) in compensation from the local municipality to cover 19 years worth of disturbances associated with town's annual music festival.
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National: 25 Jul 09
Disruptions in ferry traffic between the island of Gotland and the Swedish mainland will continue following the Thursday collision of two passenger ferries near the port of Nynäshamn off Sweden's east coast.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 09
The eastern Swedish town of Östhammar has seen off rival bidder Oskarshamn and secured a lucrative deal to store nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jun 09
Two towns in eastern Sweden are competing to be the first in the world to store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin.
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Science & Technology: 27 May 09
New cracks have been discovered in control rods a nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamns nuclear facility in southern Sweden, less than six months after all the rods were replaced.
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National: 17 Apr 09
A fire onboard a passenger ferry used to house workers at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southern Sweden forced the evacuation 240 people late Thursday night.
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National: 15 Mar 09
A 61-year-old man died while working on the O3 nuclear reactor at Oskarshamn nuclear power station in southern Sweden on Sunday morning.
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Dating: 11 Feb 09
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, AFP's Nina Larson witnesses wedding ceremonies performed in a Swedish winter wonderland.
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Society: 11 Dec 08
A 60-year-old Swedish man who says he was massaging his groin is on trial for sexual harassment after three teenage girls claim they saw him masturbating at a public pool.
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Science & Technology: 31 Oct 08
A decision by management of Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear power plant to have custodial workers stand in as guards has drawn a sharp rebuke from the country’s nuclear regulatory authority.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 08
Sweden shut down one of its nuclear reactors on Tuesday to check the plant's control rods after cracks were found in the rods at an identical plant, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) reports.
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National: 29 Jul 08
Two men were arrested on Monday in Kalmar in southern Sweden on suspicions of assault for using a pair of scissors to cut away another man’s tattoos.
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National: 2 Jul 08
The suspected bomb which resulted in large sections of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport being blocked off Wednesday turned out to be a package of O’boy chocolate milk mix wrapped in duct tape.
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National: 9 Jun 08
Two contractors suspected of smuggling explosives into a nuclear power plant in southern Sweden last month were in fact carrying nothing more sinister than a can of shaving cream.
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National: 29 May 08
Night security is often non-existent at Oskarshamn nuclear plant, where two men are suspected of trying to smuggle in explosive material.
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National: 28 May 08
Police investigating last week's security incident at the Oskarshamn nuclear power are at odds over a decision to send the key piece of evidence by regular mail.
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National: 22 May 08
Two men being held on suspicions of preparing acts of sabotage against the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant have been released.
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National: 22 May 08
Swedish bomb experts have not found any traces of explosives at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant after two men were arrested on suspicion of sabotage.
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National: 21 May 08
Two Swedish contractors were arrested on Wednesday suspected of preparing to sabotage the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, police said.
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National: 18 Sep 07
A woman died on Tuesday morning after falling from the balcony of a third-floor apartment. Witnesses say she was pushed. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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National: 10 Aug 07
Note to all self-respecting thieves considering stealing a surveillance camera: it is watching you while you work.
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Lifestyle: 10 Aug 07
Fiona Basile dons her tunic and watches Gotland turn back the clock hundreds of years for Visby's Medieval Week.
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Society: 4 Apr 07
Pan-fried herring was judged not to be good enough for the prime minister, when he visited a hospital in south-eastern Sweden. Now cooks say they are hurt that their food was passed over.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Apr 07
As Sweden's Christian Democrats shed their opposition to nuclear power, the unthinkable has become possible: Sweden may well reinvest in nuclear energy, argues Nima Sanandaji of think tank Captus.
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National: 1 Nov 06
Poor weather has led to many buses in Stockholm being cancelled, with flights delayed at airports in both Stockholm and Gothenburg.
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National: 28 Sep 06
The Forsmark 1 and 2 nuclear reactors will be restarted on Friday, two months after they were shut down following an incident at the plant, says Sweden's nuclear power inspectorate.
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National: 14 Sep 06
A series of measures must be taken before three nuclear reactors shut down in July can be brought back into operation, the Swedish nuclear power inspectorate (SKI) has concluded.
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National: 25 Aug 06
The shutdown of the nuclear reactors at Forsmark and Oskarshamn after an incident at Forsmark on July 25th has so far cost the plant owners 600 million kronor.
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National: 7 Aug 06
The closed reactor at the Forsmark nuclear plant could be restarted soon after experts manage to simulate July's incident at a facility in Germany.
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Politics: 4 Aug 06
As Sweden's nuclear energy crisis deepens, the Left Party has put further pressure on the government by demanding the closure of another nuclear power station by 2010.
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Society: 3 Aug 06
Swedish electricity prices were at record levels on Thursday following the reactor shutdowns at Forsmark and Oskarshamn. But experts said there was no risk of an energy crisis.
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National: 3 Aug 06
Five of Sweden's ten nuclear reactors are now offline after faults were found at two of the reactors at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden. Two reactors at Forsmark were shut down last week.
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National: 15 May 06
The cakes, biscuits and coffee flowed generously as Astrid Zachrison celebrated her birthday on Monday. Born in 1895, she is Sweden's oldest person.
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Politics: 12 Apr 06
A majority of Swedes want to keep atomic energy, a new survey shows, marking a turnaround in public opinion, which formerly favoured closing all the country's nuclear power stations.
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Smörgåsbord: 8 Apr 06
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Business & Money: 31 Mar 06
ABB Ltd said it has won a 24 million dollar contract from Sweden's OKG to help upgrade its Oskarshamn Unit 3 nuclear reactor on the southeast coast of Sweden.
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National: 29 Mar 06
The environmental court in Växjö has decided that armed guards are needed to protect the nuclear power station in Oskarshamn. But the law does not allow for such a measure.
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Science & Technology: 17 Mar 06
A new case of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu is "strongly suspected" in a duck in Sweden. It would be only the second case on a commercial farm in the European Union, officials said on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 15 Mar 06
The first two dead ducks from Sweden to be tested in the EU's bird flu laboratory had the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. In its most aggressive form, the virus has killed 100 people worldwide.
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Science & Technology: 10 Mar 06
The first cases of a highly pathogenic strain of H5 bird flu have been found on Gotland, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Sweden to 13.
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Science & Technology: 8 Mar 06
The aggressive form of bird flu has been found in birds in two towns in south-eastern Sweden. Experts say that they expect more cases to be found elsewhere in the country.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 06
Two ducks that died of bird flu in the Oskarshamn area of Sweden were almost certainly carrying the deadly H5N1 strain, the EU reference laboratory in the UK has confirmed. Another eight ducks were also very likely to have been infected.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 06
Eight of the 31 dead birds from the Oskarshamn area which were tested for bird flu have been found to be carrying the virus, according to the National Veterinary Institute on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 06
The Swedish government raises the classification of the H5N1 variant of bird flu to "constituting a public danger". At the same time, EU veterinary experts advise people to keep cats indoors and dogs on a leash.
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Science & Technology: 1 Mar 06
Bird flu reaches Sweden
Examination of the area where birds were found with possible H5N1 virus is stepped up as controls are introduced across Sweden. Bird owners in many parts of the country are being asked to register with local officials.
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Science & Technology: 28 Feb 06
Bird flu 'doesn't worry Swedes'
An aggressive form of bird flu has been found in Sweden. The virus was found in wild birds near Oskarshamn, in Småland in the south of the country. "Serious but not unexpected," says Sweden's agriculture minister.
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National: 6 Aug 05
For the first time in over 20 years, Sweden is to send nuclear waste for reprocessing at the much-criticised Sellafield plant in England.
"There's no alternative," says environment minister Lena Sommestad.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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