{"id":11565,"date":"2010-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/finnish-nuclear-program-gets-ready\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T09:00:00","slug":"finnish-nuclear-program-gets-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/finnish-nuclear-program-gets-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish nuclear program gets ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final parliamentary approval for two new reactor projects in Finland has put the new build ball into the utilities\u2019 court to complete their planning and agree on waste disposal.<\/strong> <\/strong>
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Approving decisions in principle made by the cabinet in May, Finland\u2019s Edkunta left the way clear today for two utilities to build new nuclear generating capacity. <\/p>\n

Both Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) and Fennovoima said they were \u201cvery pleased\u201d with the result, adding that their plans would benefit Finland as a whole. They may now select a reactor supplier and begin the year-long process with government to obtain a construction licence. <\/p>\n

For Fennovoima, this will depend on resolving issues regarding a disposal route for used fuel, while today\u2019s approvals also allowed an expansion of waste plans to accommodate TVO\u2019s new reactor. <\/p>\n

Fennovoima said it would \u201cproceed rapidly and effectively\u201d to pick a site in 2011\u00a0(either Phyh\u00e4joki in North Ostrobothnia or Simo in Lapland) and begin excavations in 2012. By 2014\u00a0it hopes to have a construction licence and begin to build the actual power plant. It wants to generate nuclear electricity \u201cno later than 2020.\u201d <\/p>\n

TVO meanwhile is busy working on the Areva EPR under construction at Olkiluoto and did not give any dates for its next reactor. It wants to build again at Olkiluoto and it has specified that the project would represent only a single large light-water reactor of 1400\u20131700\u00a0MWe capacity at one of two locations at the site. <\/p>\n

The decisions in principle give TVO and Fennovoima five years to apply for their construction permits. <\/p>\n

What about the waste?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Parliament\u2019s move on waste gave Posiva permission to expand the size of its permanent disposal facility proposed for land alongside Olkiluoto. Posiva is owned by current nuclear operators TVO and Fortum and has the responsibility to manage their used nuclear fuel. It is already developing the Onkalo rock laboratory, which will be expanded into the final repository should geologic formations live up to expectations. That project reached its final depth of 420\u00a0metres in June. <\/p>\n

Posiva\u2019s expansion will allow it space to manage TVO\u2019s used fuel, but because of its ownership the company was not able to apply to manage Fennovoima\u2019s as well. This impasse will have to be resolved before Fennovoima can get a construction licence, which means agreeing with rivals TVO and Fortum on a way to \u2019buy into\u2019 Posiva\u2019s existing program.<\/p>\n

Fennovoima noted that, \u201cParliament requires that the government contributes to starting assessment and negotiations during 2010\u00a0between Posiva, Posiva\u2019s owners and Fennovoima regarding the final disposal of used nuclear fuel. Fennovoima is prepared to act in accordance with the will of parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Final parliamentary approval for two new reactor projects in Finland has put the new build ball into the utilities\u2019 court to complete their planning and agree on waste disposal. Approving decisions in principle made by the cabinet in May, Finland\u2019s Edkunta left the way clear today for two utilities to build new nuclear generating capacity.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}