PAVILION | FINLAND MEET FINLAND’S NUCLEAR SECTOR AT WNE2021
First power Finland’s first reactor, Loviisa 1, was connected to the grid in February 1977.
NUCLEAR SITES There are two nuclear generation sites. One is at Loviisa (with two 507MW VVER units) and the other is at Olkiluoto (two 890MW BWRs). There are plans for a third site on the Hanhikivi peninsula to be operated by Fennovoima. Finland has moved forward with a deep
geological waste repository at Onkalo near Olkiluoto.
NUCLEAR GENERATORS TVO operates Olkuluoto and it aims “always to have 40 years of remaining technical lifetime” for the units. A 20-year operating licence renewal for both units was confirmed by the Finnish government in September 2018. Fortum’s Loviisa reactors were granted a
20-year licence extension by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) in mid-2007,
Practically all the credible scenarios and roadmaps (for example IPCC 2014) for effective climate
mitigation require a significant increase to our current global nuclear capacity. The next generation of advanced reactors, commercializing in 2020s and 2030s, aims to answer precisely the needs that Finland will be facing after cleaning up its electricity grid in the early 2020s: Synthetic fuels for transportation, clean heat for district heating and high temperatures for industrial processes”.
Ecomodernist Society of Finland
which will mean they can continue to operate until 2027 and 2030. Fennovoima is the country’s newest potential
generator.
POTENTIAL AND CURRENT NEW REACTOR PROJECTS A third unit at Olkiluoto has been under construction since 2005 and is due in commercial operation next year. Plans for Olkiltuoto 4 have ben abandoned. An intergovernmental agreement with Russia
was signed to enable Rosatom to supply a reactor unit for Fennovoima’s Hanhikivi project.
NEWS FROM HANHIKIVI In an October update on progress at the site of its Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant, Fennovoima reported that construction works restarted in August in the main pit after a long break. RAOS Project is carrying out excavation works with the second phase just beginning. In the third phase, excavation of the plant site will continue to the final foundation level, nearly 20 meters below sea level. “Some changes were made to the layout of the plant during the design phase, which meant that the boundaries of the main pit had to be revised. The goal is to start the works of the third phase at the turn of the year,” said Jouni Sipiläinen, Fennovoima’s Construction Director. During autumn, Fennovoima submitted licensing documents to the Radiation and
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