Projects / prj-narvik-fornes
Narvik Kjernekraft SMR plant proposal at Fornes, Ballangen
Narvik Kjernekraft, owned by Norsk Kjernekraft and Narvik municipality's business company Futurum, submitted a notification with a proposed assessment programme to the Energy Ministry in September 2025 for an SMR plant at Fornes in Ballangen, of up to 1,200 MW electric if fully built. The reactor vendor has not been chosen.
- Stage
- Siting
- Design
- Design not selected (SMR)
- Technology
- Not selected · unknown
- Operator(s)
- Norsk Kjernekraft
- Vendor(s)
- —
- Location
- Fornes, Ballangen (Narvik) · Norway · precision: approximate
Approximate geolocation stated in Narvik Kjernekraft's 2 September 2025 melding (68.34845 N, 16.89290 E) for the proposed plant location; the exact plot is to be set in the impact assessment. Not a surveyed parcel. - Coordinates
- 68.34845, 16.8929
- Electrical capacity
- — · scope: plant
- Thermal capacity
- —
- Modules planned
- —
- Inclusion basis
- smr_by_vendor_claim_with_capacity_check
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-10-02 (publication/verification date)
Milestones & dated events
- No dated milestones recorded yet.
Regulatory actions
- None recorded in this release.
Sources
- Narvik Kjernekraft: melding with proposed assessment programme (company_primary, accessed 2026-10-02)