{"id":11899,"date":"2016-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/finland-s-hanhikivi-1-excavation-work-starts\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T09:00:00","slug":"finland-s-hanhikivi-1-excavation-work-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/finland-s-hanhikivi-1-excavation-work-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland&#8217;s Hanhikivi 1 excavation work starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Excavation work has started at the construction site of the planned Hanhikivi 1\u00a0nuclear power plant in Pyh\u00e4joki, Finland. A ceremony was held to mark the start of work to dig the foundation pit on 19\u00a0January.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Hanhikivi project is owned by Finland\u2019s Fennovoima, in which a 34% stake is held by RAOS Voima Oy, the Finnish subsidiary set up in 2014\u00a0by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom for the purpose of buying a share in the company. Russia\u2019s Titan-2\u00a0is the main contractor for the Hanhikivi project.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials at the ceremony included Kirill Komarov, first deputy director general for corporate development and international business at Rosatom; Nikita Konstantinov, CEO of JSC Rusatom Energy International; Anastasia Zoteeva, deputy director general for business development at JSC Rusatom Energy International; Vadim Ryabov, chairman of RAOS Project Oy; and Grigory Naginsky, chairman Titan-2. Finnish representatives were Minna Forsstr\u00f6m, project director at Fennovoima and Matti Soronen, mayor of Pyh\u00e4joki.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement yesterday, Rosatom said the ceremony had included detonation of the rocky ground and placement of a memorial stone. Following the ceremony, the company officials visited the new Pyh\u00e4joki office of RAOS Project Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Finnish media, Komarov said Hanhikivi 1\u00a0would have a positive impact on the economy of the Pyh\u00e4joki region in terms of tax revenues during both construction and operation of the plant. According to Rosatom\u2019s estimates, every job at a nuclear plant generates seven to eight jobs in related areas, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Forsstr\u00f6m highlighted the fact the project is \u201cprogressing on schedule\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fennovoima Oy submitted an application for a construction licence for Hanhikivi 1\u00a0\u2014 a Gidropress-designed AES-2006\u00a0plant, which uses a 1200\u00a0MWe-class reactor\u00a0\u2014 in June last year. The unit is expected to enter commercial operation in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excavation work has started at the construction site of the planned Hanhikivi 1\u00a0nuclear power plant in Pyh\u00e4joki, Finland. A ceremony was held to mark the start of work to dig the foundation pit on 19\u00a0January. The Hanhikivi project is owned by Finland\u2019s Fennovoima, in which a 34% stake is held by RAOS Voima Oy, the&hellip;<\/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\/11899"}],"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=11899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}