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Start-up Delayed for Finnish Nuclear Plant

Start-up Delayed for Finnish Nuclear Plant
Energy On Line LCG, January 14, 2009–The Areva-Siemens Consortium stated yesterday that the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant unit is now not scheduled for completion until 2012. The initial target for completing the Finnish project was 2009.Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) stated that the Areva-Siemens Consortium, the turn-key supplier of the 1,600-MW nuclear power plant, filed an arbitration request over delays and overruns in the Olkiluoto 3 project and that the completion date has been delayed until June 2012.The power plant incorporates AREVA’s European Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR). In the United States, Areva is acting to develop a fleet of nuclear reactors using AREVA’s U.S. EPR design, which is a Generation III+ design based upon AREVA’s European EPR.

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January 14, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs