{"id":11641,"date":"2011-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/site-selected-for-new-finnish-plant\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:00:00","slug":"site-selected-for-new-finnish-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/site-selected-for-new-finnish-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Site selected for new Finnish plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The municipality of Pyh\u00e4joki on Finland\u2019s western coast has been selected by Fennovoima as the site of the country\u2019s third nuclear power plant. Site preparations for the plant could start by the end of 2012.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A consortium of Finnish industrial and energy companies announced in June 2007\u00a0the establishment of the joint venture company Fennovoima Oy to construct a new nuclear power plant in Finland. Within a couple of months, almost 40\u00a0sites had been proposed as candidates to house the plant. However, by December 2009, after conducting a series of assessments, the number of sites under consideration had been narrowed to just two: Pyh\u00e4joki and Simo, both on Finland\u2019s western coast. Both sites are located in government-defined development areas. The environmental impact assessment report for Fennovoima\u2019s project found no problems at either site.<\/p>\n

Fennovoima said, \u201cIn the final site decision, safety, technical feasibility, environmental matters, construction costs and schedule were the main factors examined, as well as the ability of the site region to support a project that will bring thousands of people to work and use services there.\u201d It added, \u201cHundreds of details were assessed within these key factors.\u201d<\/p>\n

These assessments concluded that both Pyh\u00e4joki and Simo \u201care feasible for accommodating a nuclear power plant and that the plant can be implemented safely and in an environmentally feasible manner on both sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Fennovoima said that Pyh\u00e4joki\u00a0\u2014 in North Ostrobothnia\u00a0\u2014 was selected as the preferred site \u201con the basis of an overall consideration assessing the site as a whole.\u201d The nuclear power plant will be built on the Hanhikivi peninsula on the coast of Bothnian Bay. The company noted, \u201cDue to technical benefits it is more feasible to construct a nuclear power plant at Pyh\u00e4joki. Assessments show that the bedrock in Pyh\u00e4joki is more solid. This means that operations like excavation works are easier to carry out.\u201d In addition, seismic design values for Pyh\u00e4joki were lower than in Simo, which \u201chas an impact on the design of the structures, systems and equipment of the plant.\u201d Tunnels for cooling water also need to be about one kilometre shorter at Pyh\u00e4joki. Fennovoima also noted that fewer permanent residents and summer houses near the Pyh\u00e4joki site means that construction \u201cwill cause less disturbance for the neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fennovoima will now work towards gaining various licences and permits, as well as conducting further site characterization studies. The company was granted a decision-in-principle by the Finnish government for the plant in May 2010, ratified by parliament two months later. Fennovoima said that preparatory works at Pyh\u00e4joki will begin in late 2012\u00a0at the earliest. The plant is expected to begin operating around 2020, although Fennovoima said, \u201cThe construction schedule will be elaborated after the plant supplier has been selected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fennovoima has shortlisted two alternatives for the plant design: Areva\u2019s EPR, an advanced pressurized water reactor rated about 1700\u00a0MWe; and Toshiba\u2019s ABWR advanced boiling water reactor rated about 1600\u00a0MWe. In July 2011, Fennovoima invited Areva and Toshiba to bid for the delivery and construction of reactor and turbine islands for a new nuclear power plant in Finland. It expects to select the plant design in 2012\u20132013.<\/p>\n

Fennovoima is a project company primarily owned by industrial power consumers and resellers, in line with the \u2019Finnish model\u2019 for financing nuclear power plant projects. While EOn has a major stake of 34%, the rest is held by Voimaosakeyhti\u00f6 SF which counts 69\u00a0organisations as its shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The municipality of Pyh\u00e4joki on Finland\u2019s western coast has been selected by Fennovoima as the site of the country\u2019s third nuclear power plant. Site preparations for the plant could start by the end of 2012. A consortium of Finnish industrial and energy companies announced in June 2007\u00a0the establishment of the joint venture company Fennovoima Oy…<\/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\/11641"}],"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=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}