HELSINKI - Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday (April 16), its operator said, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies. Nuclear power remains controversial in Europe, primarily due to safety concerns, and news of OL3's start-up comes as Germany on Saturday switches off...
HELSINKI - Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday , its operator said, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies.
OL3's operator Teollisuuden Voima , which is owned by Finnish utility Fortum and a consortium of energy and industrial companies, has said the unit is expected to meet around 14 per cent of Finland's electricity demand, reducing the need for imports from Sweden and Norway. "The production of Olkiluoto 3 stabilises the price of electricity and plays an important role in the Finnish green transition," TVO Chief Executive Jarmo Tanhua said in the statement.
OL3 first supplied test production to Finland's national power grid in March last year and was expected at the time to begin regular output four months later, but instead suffered a string of breakdowns and outages that took months to fix.
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