Finland links from IAEA
* Ministry of Trade and Industry Energy Department
* Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority
* Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
* Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
* Geological Survey of Finland(GTK)
* Finnish Meteorological Institute
* Posiva Oy (Finish Radwaste Management Company)
* Finnish Energy Industries Federation
* Lappeenranta University of Technology
October 29, 2007
Finland - land rights purchased for new N-plant, may come online by 2016-18
Finnish energy consortium Fennovoima has begun environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for its proposed 1000–1800MW nuclear plant in Finland, and rented land at one of the sites with a right-to-buy for the development. The consortium -- Outokumpu, Boliden, Rauman Energia, Katternö and Eon -- aim to have the plant operational between 2016 and 2018. The assessments will be carried out at Pyhäjoki, Ruotsinpyhtää, and Simo municipalities. At Ruotsinpyhtää, the consortium has rented a 2000ha area, of which 600ha is land. The rental contract states that Fennovoima holds the right to purchase the estate later on. Fennovoima says other EIA locations could be selected by the end of this year, with the assessments being complete by the start of 2009. Pöyry Energy Oy is EIA consultant to the consortium. After this, Fennovoima will file an application with the government for a decision-in-principle on the plant.
The consortium agreed to a deal whereby Fennovoima would produce electricity for its owners´ needs at production cost. Each owner gets the share of capacity proportional to its ownership. One third of the capacity is reserved for Finnish industry, merchandise and services, one third for regional and local energy companies, and one third for Eon Suomi. Approximately half of the capacity is to be offered to companies other than the existing Fennovoima partners. It has begun discussions with companies requiring long-term procurement of fixed-price power for their own production and customers in Finland.
[Source: Nuclear Engineering International (UK), "Three Finnish EIA sites", 29 October 2007]
October 25, 2006
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EU Commission investigates financing of Olkiluoto nuclear plant
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that financial arrangements in the ongoing construction of the third nuclear reactor at Olkiluoto in the west of ...
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Briefing: EU ...
International Herald Tribune (France)
... bank loan to the Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima that may have helped a French-German supplier win a contract to build Finland's newest nuclear plant. ...
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WWF report: Finns' ecological footprint third-heviest in world
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
... cropland and grazing land, consumption of timber for paper, pulp, and fuelwood, fishing, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, nuclear power, and the ...
* [2006-05-18] Russia to build new nuclear reactors on shore of Gulf of Finland
Helsingin Sanomat
* [2006-05-17] Finland offers potential solution to UK nuclear finance quandary
Energy Business Review
* [2006-05-09] Concrete composition delays Finland's Olkiluoto 3
Nuclear Engineering
* [2006-04-27] Finland buries its nuclear past
Richard Black, BBC News
* [2006-04-24] Nuclear power gains popularity in Finland
Newsroom Finland
* [2006-04-12] Greenpeace hires UK consultants to probe Finnish nuke site's concrete
Newsroom Finland
* [2006-04-04] Finns give nuclear plant a positive reaction
Kate Connolly, Daily Telegraph
April 2, 2006
* Finland - Uranium exploration boom deplored by some locals
* [2006-04-02] Uranium rush in Finland seen as environment threat
Yahoo! News
March 15, 2005
Finland - Olkiluoto-3 construction license granted on Feb 17 It took about a year after filing application to receive the construction license, which was pretty close to expectation. Most of the preparatory work for the Olkiluoto-3 site has been completed, actual construction work will start this spring. Commercial operation of the 1600-MWe EPR (European Pressurized water Reactor) plant is scheduled to commence in 2009.
[Source: Nuclear News, "Finland's Olkiluoto-3 was granted a construction license", March 2005, p. 17]
December 19, 2003
Finland to add an EPR
Finland's TVO decided to go with the advanced European PWR design in awarding contract for its fifth reactor to the consortium of AREVA and Siemens. FORATOM's Secretary General notes that "France is already seriously considering the EPR as a replacement for its existing large fleet of power reactors, so the new contract could be just the first of many more to come."
[Source: FORATOM European Atomic Forum press release, "Contract confirms new future for nuclear energy in Europe", December 19, 2003]
Some details
The US$3.7-billion contract is for a 1,600-megawatt plant expected to be operational in 2009.
[Source: Paul Betts (Financial Times-Paris) and Christopher Brown-Humes (Financial Times-Stockholm), Areva wins nuclear contract, Financial Times (London, England), December 19, 2003, p. 34 (subscription required)]
* Finland 1998
1986
Mean individual dose to
Finlanders from Chernobyl accident (over 50-year period) is projected to be
280 microSieverts. The collective dose to
Finlanders over the same period is projected to be
1,370 person-Sieverts. The projections take into account inhalation from the passing cloud, ingestion through the food chain, and external irradiation from deposited radioactivity, and are based on the MESOS dispersion model developed by Helen ApSimon of Imperial College, as applied by W. Nixon, of the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Chernobyl doses across the continent", January 1987, p. 62]
[Source: Nuclear Energy Agency (2000), as presented by THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER: A Study Conducted at The University of Chicago, August 2004, p. 2-5]