Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor – another delay after delays
|
* Likely to delay planned January 2020 start-up * Project already more than 10 years behind schedule – The start-up of Finland’s long-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor is likely to be pushed back by at least another two months, its project director said on Wednesday. The reactor in western Finland, built by a consortium of France’s Areva and Germany’s Siemens, is already more than a decade behind schedule and had been due to start producing electricity in January 2020. However, operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said that modification work during the first quarter had not progressed according to schedule. This means the loading of nuclear fuel into the reactor will now be pushed back by at least two months, to August from June, it added. “This new schedule review informed by the plant supplier is disappointing of course,” it said in a statement. Changes to automated systems had been made and needed to be checked, which took longer than expected, said project director Jouni Silvennoinen. He told Reuters the fuelling delay would likely postpone the start-up of regular electricity production by an equal number of months. Prior to Wednesday, the most recent delay to the project was announced in November 2018, as a result of which TVO was entitled to a payment of 18 million euros ($20 million) from Areva. Silvennoinen said the financial impact of the new delay would be clarified when the plant eventually started producing electricity regularly. |
|
No comments yet.
-
Archives
- December 2025 (293)
- November 2025 (359)
- October 2025 (377)
- September 2025 (258)
- August 2025 (319)
- July 2025 (230)
- June 2025 (348)
- May 2025 (261)
- April 2025 (305)
- March 2025 (319)
- February 2025 (234)
- January 2025 (250)
-
Categories
- 1
- 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES
- business and costs
- climate change
- culture and arts
- ENERGY
- environment
- health
- history
- indigenous issues
- Legal
- marketing of nuclear
- media
- opposition to nuclear
- PERSONAL STORIES
- politics
- politics international
- Religion and ethics
- safety
- secrets,lies and civil liberties
- spinbuster
- technology
- Uranium
- wastes
- weapons and war
- Women
- 2 WORLD
- ACTION
- AFRICA
- Atrocities
- AUSTRALIA
- Christina's notes
- Christina's themes
- culture and arts
- Events
- Fuk 2022
- Fuk 2023
- Fukushima 2017
- Fukushima 2018
- fukushima 2019
- Fukushima 2020
- Fukushima 2021
- general
- global warming
- Humour (God we need it)
- Nuclear
- RARE EARTHS
- Reference
- resources – print
- Resources -audiovicual
- Weekly Newsletter
- World
- World Nuclear
- YouTube
-
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS



Leave a comment